05-08-2013, 04:00 PM
So when they're all Buds , the tax money will flow, right ? :biggrin:
If the illegal drug trade in the US is worth, oh, $100B, then legalizing it and taxing it will... hmm..
1- Drop the prices by a factor of 5. Market's then $20B
2- Tax it at 50%. Tax revenues of $10B.
3- Drop the "War on Drugs".... cost perhaps $70B
4- Free the prisoners busted for drugs ... cost perhaps $20B
Net savings to the US taxpayer.. Perhaps $100B.
That's over FIVE times the 'savings' from the "Sequestration" that took place and caused such turmoil.
And has no consideration of the net savings in suffering caused by drug cartels and violence, and the instability of various countries including Mexico.
If the illegal drug trade in the US is worth, oh, $100B, then legalizing it and taxing it will... hmm..
1- Drop the prices by a factor of 5. Market's then $20B
2- Tax it at 50%. Tax revenues of $10B.
3- Drop the "War on Drugs".... cost perhaps $70B
4- Free the prisoners busted for drugs ... cost perhaps $20B
Net savings to the US taxpayer.. Perhaps $100B.
That's over FIVE times the 'savings' from the "Sequestration" that took place and caused such turmoil.
And has no consideration of the net savings in suffering caused by drug cartels and violence, and the instability of various countries including Mexico.