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It's all the poor, backward Southern states that really could use the tax revenue. Alaska, Colorado and Oregon were already economically successful states befor
by xacaxulu 12y ago
It's all the poor, backward Southern states that really could use the tax revenue. Alaska, Colorado and Oregon were already economically successful states before legalization. Hopefully the dominos will start falling and we can put this 'reefer madness' behind us.
- adamnemecek 12y agoThe third state is Washington.
- dsp1234 12y agoOregon will join them on July 15th due to the passage of Measure 91 on last year's ballot.
- peteretep 12y ago> backward Southern states that really could use the tax > revenue There's a lot of money to be made locking people up too...
- llamataboot 12y agoNot really. Locking people up usually costs /quite/ a bit of money.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoComment you replied to was most likely referring to private prisons: https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons > Private prison companies, however, essentially admit that their business model depends on locking up more and more people. For example, in a 2010 Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) stated: “The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by . . . leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices . . . .” As incarceration rates skyrocket, the private prison industry expands at exponential rates, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits.
- baddox 12y agoAnd it's also true, though perhaps to a less consequential extent, of public prisons. You still have prison employees and management drawing salaries and construction companies building public prisons, after all.
- tlrobinson 12y agoRight, except in the first case the state receives revenue from marijuana taxation, and in the second case the state pays private prisons taxpayer money...
- peteretep 12y agoYou better believe _someone_ is getting rich from it
- jakejake 12y agoIts true that locking people up costs taxpayer money. But there are people of influence who have positioned themselves to control and receive that money.