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Soda Tax? No Free Lunch, Nor Cheap Soda

Thats right! Legalize and tax it. Gambling and prostitution should be next. Kinda makes you wonder why we wasted billions of dollars and millions of lives on slavery. We should of kept it legal and taxed the plantations owners per head. Right?


On May 12 10:27 AM mdmrjsds wrote:

> John wrote:
> ...
> It is looking as though there is no tax that these fellows oppose
> or would not consider using. ...
>
> Actually, there seems to be one. They are not talking about ending
> the boondoggle that is the war on drugs. Over half the people in
> federal prison are there on drug charges, so that is a large cost
> that would go away. Now think of the taxes those people would pay
> if they were working. And the DEA is a huge cost. Finally, if drugs
> were legal and sold in some sort of regulated way, there would be
> a tax revenue stream similar to alcohol available. Compared to taxing
> coca-cola, this is a no brainer, and a huge revenue stream just waiting
> to happen.
>
> It would do wonders for the political stability of Mexico and Colombia
> as well, and hit the Taliban in Afghanistan where it hurts (most
> of their funding is opium derived).
>
> And it wouldn't really make drugs any more available than they already
> are.