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JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
1. Only in California.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:01 AM
Mar 2018

One of the big arguments for legalizing marijuana was that we could benefit from the taxes collected on it. Now we want to cut the taxes on it so that legal sellers can compete with illegal sellers, who do not charge taxes, thereby eliminating the reason why we were convinced to legalize it in the first place.

And, put on your logic hat, the one that makes you think with the logical part of your brain, the part that is rational, and think about that statement. "We should cut taxes to allow legal sellers compete with illegal sellers."

Hell, let's drag the whole legal, regulated economy down to the level of the illegal, unregulated economy and everybody wins.

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