True, drugs are self punishing. I don’t see why I should be taxed for yet another big government program that is ineffective.
Some cities have under 50% arrest rates for murder, and of those, near 50% convictions for an effective 25% conviction rate for murder. I wouldn’t doubt that rape, break ins, auto thefts are in the 10% rate.
It would be better if those crimes where solved at higher rates.
Drugs are an easy, make work, time eating event for the many town and city union security bureaucracies. Not to mention part of the Lawyer Income Support Act.
BTTT!
I don’t see why I should be taxed for yet another big government program that is ineffective.
I don't like being taxed for much of anything. I don't like paying insurance for socialized risk. We pay for individuals who wittingly/unwittingly attack/cause damage to themselves in a myriad of ways or cause damage to others. I don't like paying for any (through police or medical or firefighters or insurance) irrational, anti-self behavior.