Posted on 02/16/2019 10:51:18 AM PST by Mariner
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) earned praise from “drug justice” advocates after criticizing a growing marijuana legalization and business model that is paving the way for white male investors to reap major profits after minorities spent decades in prisons for selling pot.
She made her comments during a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing this week on banking services for the burgeoning cannabis industry as more states legalize the sale and use of marijuana.
She suggested the growing industry was “compounding the racial wealth gap” by allowing wealthy white-dominated companies to gain a quick advantage in the industry. She complained that communities most affected by drug incarcerations are the “last in the door” when it comes to profiting now from legalized cannabis.
The nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance praised her position. “We must legalize marijuana in a way that recognizes and repairs the disastrous, disproportionate harms of the drug war ... on people of color,” the organization tweeted after the hearing.
Ocasio-Cortez cited statistics from Colorado and Washington, where marijuana is legal for recreational use, that 73 percent of cannabis business executives are male and 81 percent are white.
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Considering the GOP’s usually unacknowledged role in promoting the progressive agenda this history isn’t surprising.
Teddy Roosevelt, Robert La Follette and Hiram Johnson would be proud that you remember.
I also remember who gave us an income tax.
Babe!
More dumbsh*tness from the socialist princess. If you’re going to buy it, “white men” are going to sell it to you. Idiot.
That’s probably correct. Plus she was born here.
We will just have to resort to what Lincoln did to Clement Vallandigham during the Civil War and revoke her citizenship.
In my area of WA, judging from online menus, store prices are $6 gram and up, rarely less than that, and oz price is generally from $80 - $200. I have no idea about street prices.
Cortez The Job Killer
I have at least 8 stores within 5 or 6 miles of me.
I never see any cars there. They will fail soon.
Legal pot is crazy expensive.
That’s almost impossible!
Besides if people lost their citizenship for saying stupid things there would be no one here!
White Hispanics make up about 20% and regular whites are about 70% in CO.
AOC is tremendously HELPING to DIMINISH the Dimms. I love it!
Maybe it's more about people doing it illegally and paying the price versus people doing it legally and reaping the profits.
Many a white drug grower/dealer is also going to get cut out of the big profits.
It's not something I worry about or care about, but your relatives may not be big beneficiaries of legalization, any more than the minority dealers in the cities.
I don’t smoke dope, but I do smoke tobacco.
When the taxes and price went up to much, I just started growing my own.
Processing tobacco for rolling cigarettes takes a lot more work and skill than just drying buds for pot smokers.
Why don’t they all just grow their own?
$200 in 1975 is equivalent to $935 in 2019 dollars.
He is definitely white, but there was a heated discussion as to whether or not he is in possession of a man card.
“I also remember who gave us an income tax.”
I’ll bet that like most people, you don’t know who gave us the income tax.
There was of course Abe Lincoln’s income tax, the Revenue Act of 1862, but it was ruled unConstitutional before it could become permanent.
The next President to promote an income tax was Teddy Roosevelt, but he knew that it would require a Constitutional Amendment.
Teddy said this about an income tax:
“The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means, Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective—a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.”
Then in 1909, Teddy’s successor President William Howard Taft, lobbied in favor of an income tax. Taft said this:
“I recommend, then, first, the adoption of a joint resolution by two-thirds of both Houses, proposing to the States an amendment to the Constitution granting to the Federal Government the right to levy and collect an income tax without apportionment among the several States according to population; and, second, the enactment, as part of the pending revenue measure, either as a substitute for, or in addition to, the inheritance tax, of an excise tax upon all corporations, measured by 2 percent of their net income.”
Congress passed its 16th Amendment resolution a month later. The amendment wasn’t ratified until early 1913 when Delaware became the 36th state to ratify it. A ‘victory’ for the two Republican Presidents who had shepherded it.
Newly elected President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Revenue Act of 1913, which included the income tax along with some tariffs.
Percentage of scientists who are white men = ?
Percentage of scientists who are black men = ?
Percentage of scientists who are brown men = ?
Women?
Asians?
Wow!
Who is the puppet master behind AOC? She can’t come up with a headline topics everyday - who is the “team” feeding her bullet point news stories?
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