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merrily

(45,251 posts)
2. Good way to improve voter turnout.
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 07:57 AM
Aug 2015

Let me try to get this straight.

Do we already have a sales tax on medicinal marijuana, for which the patient has a prescription from a state-licensed physician, though not on other prescription drugs, such as, say, oxycodone? If (so it's not really a "standard sales tax," is it? It's an extraordinary sales tax. That the percentage of an extraordinary sales tax was set is at the same percentage as an ordinary sales tax doesn't make an extraordinary sales tax ordinary, does it? So, isn't calling the an extraordinary tax on a medication "ordinary" rather deceptive?

And now, the extraordinary rate on medicinal marijuana will be increased by 3.25% to make the sales tax on recreation marijuana an extraordinary rate? And, the way the ballot question is to be phrased, you will not be able to vote yes to authorize recreational marijuana without also voting yes to the extraordinary sales tax rate.

Isn't that a tad unfair?

If I am correct, isn't funny how greed and the war on drugs intertwine, both on the Mexican border and in a state legislature?

I've been told the state lottery was sold to Massachusetts voters based on the proceeds paying for a lot of state stuff without increasing property taxes or state taxes. Is that correct? If so, how's that been going?

Think I'll be contacting my state rep and my state senator soon.

P.S. I do not use marijuana. Don't laugh, but I did it once. Unlike Clinton, it was not one joint and I did inhale. I smoked joint after joint for hours. I never got high. The next day, my head hurt like you wouldn't believe, and so did my face, from all that inhaling. I figured it was not for me. However, I can envision (no pun intended) that I might need to use it medicinally some day. Besides, I just dislike government using tactics on voters that are not strictly straight arrow.

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