IrishMick
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So they will create a new bureaucracy for this to regulate the shit out of it and then use the revenue to create new programs for people of color.
Such bullshit. A bunch of political cronies will bleed the Dept. of Weed of most of the tax income from it with their salaries. The rest of the funds would go to some half assed programs for the POC, Said programs will probably require more bureaucrats to oversee these programs further bleeding the coffers to fund their phony-baloney jobs. The weed tax will have to be raised to a level that is so large that sales are stifled and there is actually less revenue to run it all. Rinse and repeat for a few cycles. Meanwhile revenues have dropped to the point that the do not cover the expense of the Weed Bureaucracy (which can never be downsized or eliminated), so it will need outside funding so taxes earmarked for other services will be diverted and/or raised and reduction of actual beneficial programs will be reduced. The people of color who the weed funds are supposed to help will get little to nothing for all this. The users of the weed will avoid paying the enormous tax as much as they possibly can by either growing their own or buying it from weed shiners. Unlike making alcohol which is a much more difficult endeavor than growing marijuana there will be a huge underground market in illicit weed. I'm all good for weed to be legal but the government running it will be a monumental failure. As the current plan unfolds you can see all the politicians licking their chops over more citizens money coming in for them to steal and mismanage. Soon the infighting over weed revenue allocation will begin. NYS already runs at a deficit yet no one is talking about using any revenues to fix the budget. This will be a monumental failure as the Government of the state is INCAPABLE of running anything efficiently and weed is too easy to grow.
Such bullshit. A bunch of political cronies will bleed the Dept. of Weed of most of the tax income from it with their salaries. The rest of the funds would go to some half assed programs for the POC, Said programs will probably require more bureaucrats to oversee these programs further bleeding the coffers to fund their phony-baloney jobs. The weed tax will have to be raised to a level that is so large that sales are stifled and there is actually less revenue to run it all. Rinse and repeat for a few cycles. Meanwhile revenues have dropped to the point that the do not cover the expense of the Weed Bureaucracy (which can never be downsized or eliminated), so it will need outside funding so taxes earmarked for other services will be diverted and/or raised and reduction of actual beneficial programs will be reduced. The people of color who the weed funds are supposed to help will get little to nothing for all this. The users of the weed will avoid paying the enormous tax as much as they possibly can by either growing their own or buying it from weed shiners. Unlike making alcohol which is a much more difficult endeavor than growing marijuana there will be a huge underground market in illicit weed. I'm all good for weed to be legal but the government running it will be a monumental failure. As the current plan unfolds you can see all the politicians licking their chops over more citizens money coming in for them to steal and mismanage. Soon the infighting over weed revenue allocation will begin. NYS already runs at a deficit yet no one is talking about using any revenues to fix the budget. This will be a monumental failure as the Government of the state is INCAPABLE of running anything efficiently and weed is too easy to grow.
