Right for the wrong reasons
March 6, 2009 – 7:59 am by JohnHave you heard about the proposals from, for instance, California and Illinois legislators who want to legalize marijuana to increase their states’ tax revenue? God, the predatory and self-serving nature of these thugs knows no bounds! They have no conception of or concern for individual rights—they don’t want to decriminalize drug use because people have a right to use them and live their own lives! No, they want to legalize them so they can control and regulate and sap more money from them! Leeches! Vultures!
3 Responses to “Right for the wrong reasons”
It is a crying shame, but I’ll take an incremental victory wherever I can get it. It’s always better to be marginally more free.
By David Z on Mar 6, 2009
Logical incoherence has never stopped a politician or a bureaucracy. In fact, I think they are fueled by it.
Smoking is bad, we want to discourage it. Meanwhile, let’s tax it for our bureaucratic programs…
http://warskill.blogspot.com/2009/03/up-in-smoke.html
By foutsc on Mar 6, 2009
Pretty ugly. When companies run out of money go bankrupt; when states run out of money they become corrupt. The worst is that if they’re somehow able to do this before other states, they really could make tons of $$, while likely attracting sleazebags all over the country, similar to the effect gambling has had on certain cities.
The Economist just featured a special extremely critical of the drug war, http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13237193
By kerrjac on Mar 7, 2009