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Legal Marijuana could Generate 132 billion

shitty article. They based it on a 35% corporate tax rate (which doesn't exist anymore) with an additional 15% federal sales tax.
 
shitty article. They based it on a 35% corporate tax rate (which doesn't exist anymore) with an additional 15% federal sales tax.


So fucking what !!!! It's about jobs !!!!

So cut the 20% and it's still billions and a lot of jobs. You capitalistic fucks want everything. Lower taxes , lower wages , Part time employees, Minimal healthcare coverage .
Gotta make sure the Ceo's get there millions dollar parchutes. Legalize it and tax the piss out of it . Going to have to find the revenue somewhere other the social security and Medicare. Democrats may cave in on the Dreamers but they can't on these two .
 
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So fucking what !!!! It's about jobs !!!!

So cut the 20% and it's still billions and a lot of jobs. You capitalistic fucks want everything. Lower taxes , lower wages , Part time employees, Minimal healthcare coverage .
Gotta make sure the Ceo's get there millions dollar parchutes. Legalize it and tax the piss out of it . Going to have to find the revenue somewhere other the social security and Medicare. Democrats may cave in on the Dreamers but they can't on these two .

Jobs are good. I'm always about jobs but I'm not sure I can get around the idea of Marijuana everywhere. Though it might get there sooner than later.
 
Jobs are good. I'm always about jobs but I'm not sure I can get around the idea of Marijuana everywhere. Though it might get there sooner than later.


MJ won't be "everywhere" ...pot smokers will be treated like cigarette smokers in public. They will have to partake primarily in private. All else being equal, and both causing impairment (alcohol being potentially far worse from the amount consumed), I would much rather share the road with someone who is driving while stoned, than someone who is drunk. No one has ever died from marijuana abuse or poisoning. There is also the many beneficial products made from hemp.


There are also an increasing amount of people who are out and about, while under the influence of opioids and/or benzos, whether legally or illegally.

Disclaimer: Although never a "chronic" user, I quit smoking it over 25 years ago. I have, however, reconsidered the medical aspects of it recently, due to my degenerative and presently inoperable genetic disability, called ankylosing spondylitis, which prevents me from standing for extended periods of time. I have no desire to become increasingly dependent upon Rx painkillers as I enter my elderly years.

But $132B is still faar behind the $650B+ and climbing annual federal budget for the MIC and "defense"..ostensibly vs the Commies and Moose Lambs who want to take away our freedumbs. Perhaps we would be better served by some real "free market" competitive frugality by privatizing the US military.
 
Making cocaine legal would create jobs too.

Ridiculous, as cocaine and its crack derivative have both been studied at length for their highly mental and physically addictive properties which result in declining health, if not early death.
 
Ridiculous, as cocaine and its crack derivative have both been studied at length for their highly mental and physically addictive properties which result in declining health, if not early death.

It was a joke.
 
MJ won't be "everywhere" ...pot smokers will be treated like cigarette smokers in public. They will have to partake primarily in private. All else being equal, and both causing impairment (alcohol being potentially far worse from the amount consumed), I would much rather share the road with someone who is driving while stoned, than someone who is drunk. No one has ever died from marijuana abuse or poisoning. There is also the many beneficial products made from hemp.


There are also an increasing amount of people who are out and about, while under the influence of opioids and/or benzos, whether legally or illegally.

Disclaimer: Although never a "chronic" user, I quit smoking it over 25 years ago. I have, however, reconsidered the medical aspects of it recently, due to my degenerative and presently inoperable genetic disability, called ankylosing spondylitis, which prevents me from standing for extended periods of time. I have no desire to become increasingly dependent upon Rx painkillers as I enter my elderly years.

But $132B is still faar behind the $650B+ and climbing annual federal budget for the MIC and "defense"..ostensibly vs the Commies and Moose Lambs who want to take away our freedumbs. Perhaps we would be better served by some real "free market" competitive frugality by privatizing the US military.

On that side note, I have a hard time standing or sitting for long stretches. Like 20 minutes or more. My couch is my favorite friend. But I would never smoke weed. I don't do pills either, I've seen what doctors have subscribed to people that messes them up .. medicine closet full of it.
 
So fucking what !!!! It's about jobs !!!!

So cut the 20% and it's still billions and a lot of jobs. You capitalistic fucks want everything. Lower taxes , lower wages , Part time employees, Minimal healthcare coverage .
Gotta make sure the Ceo's get there millions dollar parchutes. Legalize it and tax the piss out of it . Going to have to find the revenue somewhere other the social security and Medicare. Democrats may cave in on the Dreamers but they can't on these two .

but if they legalize it there will be more huge corporations with CEOs that make millions...that can't be a good thing!

Maybe we should let the government run the entire marijuana industry. Keep the filthy private capitalists out of it and let our efficient federal government run it. :nod:
 
but if they legalize it there will be more huge corporations with CEOs that make millions...that can't be a good thing!

Maybe we should let the government run the entire marijuana industry. Keep the filthy private capitalists out of it and let our efficient federal government run it. :nod:

Capitalists raising prices and the govmint taxing the shit out of MJ will create a black market for cheaper pot...plus turning the dispensaries into even juicier targets for internal theft and robberies.
 
Sure I'm OK with it .it's better then alcohol. Tax it and make it expensive .

yes, cocaine is way better than (with an "a" not an "e") alcohol - just look at how crack has turned around so many blighted urban areas. They don't call it the Crack Renaissance for no reason. It creates 10s of thousands of jobs, drove graduation rates through the roof, led to massive decreases in crime and solved the alcohol addiction problem is so many cities.
 
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Ridiculous, as cocaine and its crack derivative have both been studied at length for their highly mental and physically addictive properties which result in declining health, if not early death.

A lot of legal, unhealthy shit creates jobs.

Spam (the canned meat, although internet spam too, probably) creates jobs.

Beef Jerky creates jobs.

NFL creates jobs.

Wars create jobs.

The list goes on and on.
 
A lot of legal, unhealthy shit creates jobs.

Spam (the canned meat, although internet spam too, probably) creates jobs.

Beef Jerky creates jobs.

NFL creates jobs.

Wars create jobs.

The list goes on and on.

Yeah...that canned spam is pretty addictive, not to mention undeclared "wars" that solved nada, if not made the conflicts worse, or were lost (Vietnam).

I recall reading an article where a couple of college students created an algorithm, which tapped into spam email "pump and dump" stock scams, where it would track the volumes of spam pimping a stock, and calculate its peak and peak email spread, when @ that point, that stock would be dumped by the spammers. So the students bought and sold the same stocks themselves, while profiting every time.
 
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Capitalists raising prices and the govmint taxing the shit out of MJ will create a black market for cheaper pot...plus turning the dispensaries into even juicier targets for internal theft and robberies.

where'd you learn about capitalism, from the Communist Manifesto?
 
where'd you learn about capitalism, from the Communist Manifesto?

Nahh.... from reading about all of the actual and virtual monopolies and conglomerates being created to control just about every worthwhile product and service during the past 50 years...no "textbooks" being necessary.
 
Nahh.... from reading about all of the actual and virtual monopolies and conglomerates being created to control just about every worthwhile product and service during the past 50 years...no "textbooks" being necessary.

got it. so in other words, you don't actually know what capitalism is.
 
got it. so in other words, you don't actually know what capitalism is.

Not from what your POV of it is, obviously.

Your line of employment and career hinge upon unfettered capitalism, that which is primarily benefiting the 10% who own 80% of all stocks, and corporations whose stocks are publicly traded, so you have a larger bias than most DSF members who post here.

My career dealt with working in both private and government service, that was beneficial to private business, government, and the general public.

I could link to some definitions of what capitalism is supposed to be, but none would exactly match what is being practiced here in the USA.

We are led to believe by conservatives that the "free market" is all that is needed to self-police capitalism, but that would only be completely practical in a closed-off society, w/o any trade with other nations who do not practice "our" hybrid version of it. The gargantuan trade deficits that have grown exponentially since offshoring rapidly increased in the 80s, and outsourcing exploded with the the advent of broadband internet ~turn of the century are obvious (and ominous) signs that there are no level "playing fields" globally.

That, along with deregulation, mergers, consolidations, monopolization, downsizing, rightsizing, (JIT) automation, technology, robotics....and we are only on the cusp of what AI is capable of doing....that being a complete game-changer. All of these things have and will affect both competition and consumerism, being those who sell and/or manage, purchase, and lease products and services. You may call me a socialist, but I detest what "capitalism" has become, it is by no means a panacea for all what ails this country economically or socially. I can vote to change who represents me in government, but I have absolutely no voice or vote in who manages or sits on the board of directors for any given corporation...unless I am a (majority) stockholder or investor.
 
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