A guaranteed way to make Republicans support legal weed
“Marijuana legalization will lead to tax cuts.”
How it works:
1) Marijuana is popular.
2) http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/19/news/colorado-marijuana-tax-revenue/index.html
The state of Colorado is pulling in about $200 million per year in pot tax revenue.
3) There’s no way to say how much revenue will be had at the federal level from pot tax...not everyone who drinks will change to weed, and not everyone who smokes weed will stop drinking. But let’s take the same wild stab the GOP does when it does Laffer Curve supply side job creation estimates and say weed will produce $10 billion in federal tax revenues per year, plus pay for itself by funding the social costs of pot use. (Alcohol taxes do not come close to funding the social costs of alcohol use.)
4) Because “revenue neutrality” is the GOP’s mantra, every dollar gained by taxing pot will have to be offset with a tax cut in another part of the government.
Republicans will sell their own mothers for a tax cut.
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