Or the big “confederate flag” that was flying along 95 before the Commonwealth took it for roadway expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mmm. Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I wanted to talk about this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I waded into the cesspool that is Facebook, and saw that it’d been posted in one of the groups I follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My comment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Less promisingly, the bill would impose a 5 percent federal tax on cannabis products, rising to 6 percent after two years, 7 percent after three years, and 8 percent after four years.” Glad they got that part in there. Much like what’s happening with many states, the recent push doesn’t actually dismantle the apparatuses assembled in the past century to fight drugs, but just redeploys it to _collect taxes_. The SWAT raids will get worse. I see you’re running a grow operation, there, but the Commissioner of Revenue says you[ve never paid a cent in taxes. We’re going to take all of those plants, along with everything else you’ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hispter Democrats’ argument is that “decriminalization” fixes the bad parts of the “war on drugs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n No. No, it doesn’t when you’re doing it to raise tax revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did you miss the bit about the Stamp Act<\/a> in school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n