[nickcarraway]

Basically, when you take away all the fancy language about profit motives etc., what you are saying is that I should spend most my time working to pay for people that can’t or don’t want to work. You can say “we shouldn’t pay for blah blah blah,” but this is the United States in 2015, so that’s just a fairy tale. You want to punish the workers for the actions of others. You want the productive people to pay more and more.

[nathanbedford]

You want the productive people to pay more and more

To the contrary who is it that wants the productive people to spend billions and billions of dollars annually to incarcerate drug users and make them nonproductive? Who is it that wants the productive people to spend billions and billions of dollars on law enforcement and the war on drugs which we are indisputably losing and, in fact, have lost? Who is it that wants billions of dollars of productive people to be sent abroad buying illegal drugs which could be had so much cheaper if they were legal?

If you think you get off cheaper by insisting that drugs remain illegal, you need another tax accountant.