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Eleanors38

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2. Prohibition schemes result in:
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 02:03 PM
Aug 2015

1). Massive prison building programs
2). Massive diversion of LEO assets
3). Massive incarceration
4). Massive black market networks
5). Thundering corruption
6). Increase in violence to effect 4)
7). Little discernible effect on the purported benefits (if any were enunciated) of prohibition.
8). Massive decline in respect for LEO and governing institutions
9). Massive social costs in terms of family break-up, lost earnings, loss of tax base

If any of this sounds familiar to other prohibitions, it is. The big diff is that tens of millions of Americans will do more than ignore or get around such a measure. They Will resist such a move.

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