They need to raise the sales tax on marijuana. or stoke up the population and all go blissfully into that good economic night.
I don't see the point of disproportionately taxing your best asset. The only 2 ways to tax are with flat sales tax equal on everything or a per capita income tax. I prefer the per capita income tax, because it more realistically deals with expenses according to what is owned and it would raise more eyebrows as to what and how much government spends. I would even go as far to say that if something is a major money maker in the state, top 5, let's say, I would not tax it at all. The reason for this is to send the economy in hyper-drive. Why penalize achievement?
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas