SmarterthanYou
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freedom hating slave
Pot culture
- Thread starter Big Money
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Nice jethro!
SmarterthanYou
rebel
says the swamprat cajun hoplophpobe who can't spell
I can spell, cable guy Internet wannabe lawyer!
Are you arguing that taxation is more destructive than prohibition? Are you claiming that allowing the government to tax rather than raid homes and jail people would be more invasive?
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SmarterthanYou
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i'm arguing that it CAN be. much like it was by infringing on the peoples right to own machine guns.
I have not heard anyone suggest a punitive tax that attempts to prohibit use. Instead the taxes are intended to raise revenue. There is a pretty obvious difference.
It sounds to me like you are just trying to find away to oppose legalization.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
exceptions would be charging a tax that is 20 times higher than the product themselves.
then you would be wrong. if you are unable to tell by my posts, I'm consistantly trying to figure out how the government has authority to prohibit possession.
Who is suggesting that?
That's not an exception to what I said. A 2000% tax would obviously fall into the punitive attempt to suppress/prohibit use.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
for MJ? Nixon and his admin did initially. It was also done in the 30s with machine guns, silencers, and SBS weapons.
Althea
Althea told me...........
There's nothing more idiotic than thinking that anyone with a modicum of intelligence, would resort to buying weed. Legalize it, and tax those who aren't smart enough to grow it.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
maybe you haven't noticed it lately, but there are millions of people in prison as we speak who did nothing more than buy weed because they were too lazy to grow it themselves.
Althea
Althea told me...........
No. They're in prison, because they were selling large quantities of it.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
you've never heard of simple possession???????