Apr 20
If pot is legalized, I expect increases in tax revenue
Every year, the federal and state governments make fortunes off of alcohol and tobacco. Yet: not only are we throwing away all the taxes we could be making off of marijuana, but we’re spending TONS of money arresting, prosecuting, and jailing people whose only crime was getting high on pot. The savings from not doing that anymore by itself would be a huge economic boon to the United States even if didn’t tax it a penny.
