Thread: Tax marijuana sales to help pay down national debt
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Old 04-15-2008, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyBob View Post
Tennessee [and other states] already taxes marijuana sales.
^^Appropriate smiley. What a joke.

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But as the story above notes, "paying the tax doesn't make the drugs legal, either." Not surprisingly, reports from other states with "crack taxes" show most sales of the actual tax stamps are to stamp collectors, not drug dealers.
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Since tax evasion is a civil rather than a criminal offence, drug taxes lower the burden of proof facing district attorneys in drug cases, making "crack taxes" a popular law-enforcement tool.
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