witchlinblue
11-15-2005, 01:04 PM
'According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 96.7 million Americans (40.2 percent) have tried marijuana; an estimated 25.4 million (10.6 percent of the population) smoked marijuana last year alone. If there's one area of which the United States government is an expert, it's taxation. Let's suppose that all 25.4 million of those people smoked an average of five grams of marijuana throughout the year.
If we estimate each gram of marijuana costs $20, of which the government enforced a 25 percent per gram tax, the U.S. government would have received an additional $635 million in revenue last year.'
excerpt from Fighting to win in the war on drugs (http://www.dailytoreador.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/15/43794c6a95548)
Now think about it, I know the first thing you are probably thinking is 25% yeah right. But do you know that cigarettes and gasoline have very high taxes on them, so does liquor.
From what I could discover:
The tax rates for legal addictions such as cigarettes and liquor are very high in some states not to mention the growing tax on gasoline.
A very large amount of rehab and addict resources could be paid for with $635 million a year.
If we estimate each gram of marijuana costs $20, of which the government enforced a 25 percent per gram tax, the U.S. government would have received an additional $635 million in revenue last year.'
excerpt from Fighting to win in the war on drugs (http://www.dailytoreador.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/15/43794c6a95548)
Now think about it, I know the first thing you are probably thinking is 25% yeah right. But do you know that cigarettes and gasoline have very high taxes on them, so does liquor.
From what I could discover:
The tax rates for legal addictions such as cigarettes and liquor are very high in some states not to mention the growing tax on gasoline.
A very large amount of rehab and addict resources could be paid for with $635 million a year.