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Bernie Sanders wants to pile $50 billion from legal marijuana tax revenue into business grants
Bernie Sanders releases a plan to legalize marijuana nationwide, expunge certain marijuana convictions and invest in grants to boost communities disproportionately affected by current drug laws.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/bernie-sanders-unveils-legal-marijuana-plan-in-2020-democratic-primary.html
Actual proposals to address the damage that the war on drugs has inflicted disproportionately on African American communities.
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Bernie Sanders wants to pile $50 billion from legal marijuana tax revenue into business grants (Original Post)
Voltaire2
Oct 2019
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msongs
(67,413 posts)1. extreme pot taxes will hurt legal dealers and the cartels will undercut them nt
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George II
(67,782 posts)2. Very high taxes on cigarettes in northern states like NJ, NY, CT, etc. has created quite a large....
....bootlegging industry from the Carolinas.
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The Sanders plan did not include a proposed tax rate for legal marijuana sales or an estimate for annual revenue raised. A study released last year by New Frontier Data estimated legal marijuana nationwide would generate about $132 billion in tax revenue over a decade. It based the figures on a 15% retail sales tax along with other business-related taxes, according to The Washington Post.
I dont think that is extreme.
Nor is safe regulated reasonably taxed pot going to do anything other than get the criminals out of the pot business.
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tishaLA
(14,176 posts)4. Look at the state taxes people out west pay on weed
additional taxes on weed would make medical weed unaffordable to those who need it. It's a backdoor way to empower cartels and street dealers.
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