Do you think if the government legalized, produced and sold different grades of Marijuana (like they do toboacco), that we could get rid of our national deficit?
2006-09-14 12:30:42 · 8 answers · asked by Autumn BrighTree 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
well, thanks to bush, our deficit is $834,938,983 trillion right now...so that's a lot of weed to sell. i think it would help...and not just from the amount actually sold. legalizing it would make possesion no longer a crime, which would drastically reduce the money spent on convicting 'criminals', and housing them in prisons and jails across our 'free' country. think of how many non-violent potheads are spending years in prison that we, as taxpayers, have to pay to feed, and house. it's absurd.
2006-09-14 12:44:58 · answer #1 · answered by why do i? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends if it were Public or privite. If the goverment controlled the growth and sales ie state ran stores then it would be a pure income on all profit. Whould that be enough to fix the national dept? "Revenue from taxation of marijuana sales would range from $2.4 billion per year if marijuana were taxed like ordinary consumer goods to $6.2 billion if it were taxed like alcohol or tobacco."1 That is showing only a tax not pure income. now using that as a guide The national debt is 8,538,804,596,836 and rising 1.74 billion each day. will 6.2 billion cover that? no.
2006-09-14 19:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. In California, marijuana is the third largest crop.
2006-09-14 19:35:38 · answer #3 · answered by anonymous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a matter of fact it is...but I'm too lazy to go to the other side so I'm staying here
2006-09-14 21:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by I am NOT George Bush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because productivity would decrease. Have you ever been stoned? How much work did you accomplish? Probably not much.
2006-09-14 19:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by koffee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell yes girl, we'd be able to fence the borders!!
2006-09-15 08:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a job
2006-09-14 19:32:38 · answer #7 · answered by lovephoto 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dunno, but it would make a lot of people FORGET we had one.
2006-09-14 19:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by IthinkFramptonisstillahottie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋