Taxing Pot Would Generate $1.4 Billion in California, says State Board

mazpot

mazpot

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well, at least they admitted it:

President Obama, Governor Schwarzenegger and other esteemed politicos may routinely distance themselves from the potential windfall that would accompany legalizing and taxing cannabis, but amid California's latest and deepest financial crisis the state Board of Equalization has tagged a whopping revenue figure to such a notion.

As Eric Bailey blogs on the LA Times' L.A. Now site, "a tax on pot sales in California could fetch as much as $1.4 billion, according to the board's analysis in response to a proposal by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) that would regulate cannabis much like alcohol."
 
jfgordon1

jfgordon1

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Why can't people just have something without the government sticking it's hand in our pocket...
 
ilovetree

ilovetree

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i live in cali... and i think if they taxed it it would be worth it ... it wouldnt be much cheeper ..but it would lessen crime..make sure your not getting bad grass or ripped off, and it would help the economy....and my parents would have to find another reason to be mad that i smoke....lol
 
mazpot

mazpot

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If the whole US did this they might get more then a trillion who knows. good rep to me please, thanks.
 
C

colbalt...blue

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why couldn't Assemblyman Tom Ammiano have proposed just the heavy enough normal income tax? is it because he needs support so he has to make sure the cartel ... soz i mean other politicians and corporations get their usual double helping and still maintain control? and like desperate cattle we clamber to suck on the first turd they plop out.

shit ... i'm actually in quite a good mood ... where the fuck did this come from?

oh nooooo the demon is back .... so what conditions and how far should or shouldn't the controls go when legalising pot? go try YOUR hand at legislation. never know, could be the start of something wonderful.
 
dukeofbaja

dukeofbaja

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I'm all for it. Let them tax the shit out of it. Let the folks who don't grow their own pay whatever and shun the illegal market. I will sit here and grow my own without paying tax on it. Besides of course the annual fee for the medical license...
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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londonfog said:
Hey they tax tomatoes in the store but not the ones you grow in your garden. Grow your own
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The taxes you pay on tomatoes today, might be used to incarcerate somebody
for growing their own tomorrow.

When people that think they should own their bodies, submit to a tax.... Owning your body has ceased to be a "right" and has been reduced to a revocable "privelege".

Certainly paying for a "right" negates it as a right.

I'm not saying that the tax and legalize scenario isn't an improvement over the status quo. The status quo is outright slavery. However, let's at least realize that government still is operating from the point that people need "permission" to own themselves. That's wrong.

If we need permission to own ourselves, we must be owned by somebody else. If we are "owned" by somebody else, we aren't free.
Prior to the civil war, slaves that worked "extra hard" could buy their freedom...sound familiar?
 
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