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Originally Posted by Smaerd
If the idea makes sense and the government has good enough cash flow incentive why the heck wouldn't they.
80 million americans have smoked pot x $50 = a lot of bread homie?
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I'm going to tell you exactly why your idea will never work. The government is not one entity. It is thousands of different departments and people all with different jobs and budgets. Yes, regulating and taxing pot would being in a lot of moeny to the government. And say for the sake of argument, the money coming in from taxes is much more than is currently comming in from drug enforcement.
The problem is that the money would be going to different people.
Right now, municipalities and local police and the DEA and other government entities are getting tons of cash from whatever it is theyre doing with drugs.
Legalizing and taxing pot would shift the money coming there and move it to the federal
gov't. There would be winners and losers. And you can bet the people who are getting the money now dont want to see that go to some other jerkoff.
It works the same way with budgeting. There are thousands of poeple who's jobs rely on the current legal status of pot for their paycheck and their departments budget. Far too many people have a vested interest in pot to ever see the type of legalization you are talking about.
Basically - even though it would be bringing in tons of money, it would be going to different places than the money coming in now. Both cash flows are mutually exclusive. Thats your problem.