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My BS meter is really pegged.
I said in March that if this lockdown thing happens, the states are going to lose massive tax revenues - and they can’t just print money.
And here we are. You think 2020 is bad? Just wait until to REAL economic fallout from this lockdown hits in 2021. Primarily I expect to see price and tax inflation like we’ve not seen since the Carter years.
When Gov. Wolf was reelected (in no small part because of the incompetent and trump-hating PA GOP) his Lt. Gov was successfully primaried by a very shrewd and very hard leftist candidate, Fetterman.
Once in office, Lt. Gov Fetterman was single-minded in promoting pot legalization. The only time you’d ever see his name in print was when he was holding town hall sessions throughout the state on legalization.
Gov. Wolf and Lt. Gov Fetterman have played nice in public, but as weak and incompetent as Wolf has proven to be, especially in light of his response to the Rona, and as clever and committed as Fetterman has shown himself to be, I’m certain Fetterman is calling in his favors.
Of course not. Pot makes you lazy. Lazy criminals don't commit as many crimes.
Pennsylvania officials need to visit San Francisco.
Wolf IS A DISASTER for PA, and the nation!!
GOOD PEOPLE OF PA-—VOTE TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will bring out the Dems in droves.
Legalizing pot was a major contributing factor for us getting Whittmer. (Having a weak Republican candidate with no campaign and a Republican governor who gave a tepid, belated endorsement didn’t help either.)
Perhaps pot motels.
Pay at least $60 for an overnight room and buy up to $60 in pot before 9pm for usage in said room before 9am.
This keeps usage from filling urban streets.
Leave it to government to screw up selling weed. Back in the day I knew several young men with NO business experience, no marketing background who sold weed and business was booming! :)
Joe Biden would eliminate hydrocarbon jobs and tax revenues in Pennsylvania.
Just because Wolf say he wants legalization doesn’t mean he should get legalization because in other jurisdictions its brought more bills and more misery.
I could see decriminalization, because people’s lives shouldn’t be ruined over this, plus there are fines to act as a disincentive.
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“In Colorado, for every dollar gained from marijuana taxes, taxpayers spend $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization.”
Reefer Madness BS. The truth about that bogus study:
‘the authors do not include cost estimates for years prior to legalization. In both the social sciences and the medical field, researchers often attempt to isolate the impact of a change in one group (the “treatment group”) from a similar group (the “control group”). In this case, the authors could have compared the current costs per year since legalization to annual costs prior to legalization when marijuana was consumed illicitly. Because the authors fail to attempt to isolate the impact, no peerreviewed academic journal would consider the findings credible (Wing et al., 2018).
‘A true cost-benefit analysis would include all the benefits of legalization– not just state tax revenues. These include added local tax revenues, income taxes, reduced incarceration costs, decreased policing costs, and lower legal fees. [...]
‘Most glaringly, the authors fail to include the impact of legalization on economic activity, or gross state product (GSP), on the benefits side of the equation. This is a remarkable omission in a cost-benefit analysis. [...] In the case of marijuana legalization, residents and visitors spent more than $760 million on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado in the 12 months between July 2017 and June 2018 (Manzo et al., 2018). Ignoring this economic activity altogether is another blemish in the Centennial Institute’s analysis.
‘Moreover, the authors erroneously consider certain items “costs” when they should instead be listed as “benefits.” Marijuana arrests represent their biggest mistake. The authors report report that taxpayer expenditures on marijuanarelated arrests fell from $14.8 million in 2012 before legalization to $7.2 million in 2017 post-legalization (Centennial Institute, 2018). The authors inexplicably use the 2017 figure of $7.2 million and call it a “cost” of legalized marijuana despite the fact that costs have mathematically fallen by $7.6 million per year since legalization. This should obviously be listed as a benefit, not a cost.’