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Alcohol is heavily taxed, and as any liquor store owner will tell you, it's taxed at every possible opportunity: production, distribution and end user sales. W
by Phlarp 11y ago
Alcohol is heavily taxed, and as any liquor store owner will tell you, it's taxed at every possible opportunity: production, distribution and end user sales.
We should be striving to bring overall tax rates for tobacco and marijuana up to match alcohol.
- chipgap98 11y agoMarijuana has an incredibly high tax in Colorado. IRC its like 25%
- moonchrome 11y ago25% incredibly high ? Some European countries have higher VAT than that :(
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- chipgap98 11y agoIs that a reasonable metric in this case? I'd be more interested in the tax other countries have on marijuana/alcohol
- moonchrome 11y agoConsidering those get taxed on top of VAT and are even higher in my country (it's not a % tax but a fixed number per defined unit but it comes down to ~30% post VAT on tobacco products for eg.) and AFAIK US has no VAT (maybe I'm wrong ?) I wouldn't call 25% tax incredibly high.
- chipgap98 11y agoIn the US, that would be an incredibly high tax
- gingerlime 11y agonitpick, but I think only one country has higher VAT rate than 25% - Hungary with 27% source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax
- moonchrome 11y agoFair enough - there are several countries that have 25% (my country included) so I should have said >=
- aianus 11y agoHahaha the tax on alcohol in Ontario is over 100%. Cigarettes are something like 200%-300%.
- dublinben 11y agoWhy? Alcohol is much more harmful than cannabis. It should be taxed at a higher rate.
- sparkystacey 11y agoIs it? The numbers earlier suggested Colorado only brought in half the tax for alcohol it did for weed. My bet is alcohol costs the state far more in police and social services than weed does. Weed smokers don't usually get in car wrecks or end up in fights that lead them to the ER.
- rconti 11y agoThe difference is, because of its prohibition, marijuana has a thriving black market. They need to stamp out the black market before they can get taxation to that level.
- lotharbot 11y agoA friend of mine visited me in Denver from another state. He came back from a weed store with a little bottle and exclaimed "dude, this was only 10 bucks! It'd cost me like $50 back home!" I'm really looking forward to seeing data on what happens to the black market for other drugs, with marijuana now easier to get legally than illegally.
- jessaustin 11y ago'sparkystacey you appear to be hellbanned. It's not obvious why since your comments seem innocuous.