Re:Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were ...
by briandear on Sunday September 10, 2017 @02:32PM
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Well said! Differential taxation based on some social or moral argument, to me, is a violation of liberty. The government ought not be in the business of using taxes to dictate what people should or shouldn’t do. Government shouldn’t be dictating winners and losers — that should be up to the individual. Every product ought to be taxed identically.
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Re:Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were ...
by tptacek on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:41PM
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In order to make this argument coherent, you'd need to oppose as well a whole lot of additional commercial regulation, such as the kind forbidding the sale of food unfit for human consumption, fake medicine, cars that explode in fender benders, &c. If the people through their government can elect to forbid the sale of products altogether, surely it's less a breach of liberty for them to elect instead to add a surcharge to account for the externalities of those goods.