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SWBTATTReg

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4. Thank you for adding the clarification. If there are methods to explore besides an ...

Reply to lunasun (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 02:42 PM

Dec 2018

automatic run to the voters for a tax increase, why not? After all, Alcohol does the same thing revenue wise for a lots of municipalities too. Unfortunately of course being a 'sin tax', but I guess that's the price we pay for government services. Perhaps there should be some sort of balance between 'sin taxes' and 'taxes' based on actual revenues / income in the state, which I think eventually is found by voters.

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Chicago - Mayor Emanuel proposes legalizing marijuana, casino to pay for pensions [View all] lunasun Dec 2018 OP

Digging into the $500M+ TIF developer slush fund would also be helpful. kysrsoze Dec 2018 #1

And only 1 casino to bring in all of these hundreds of millions of dollars? Yeah, right. I ... SWBTATTReg Dec 2018 #2

It's beem medical state wide a few yrs. although statewide it was of the most restricted medicallaws lunasun Dec 2018 #3

Thank you for adding the clarification. If there are methods to explore besides an ... SWBTATTReg Dec 2018 #4