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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by glesica on Sunday February 23, 2014 @05:39PM (#7287982) 

  > There's nothing wrong with taxing stupid.
If you're the type of person who doesn't mind people dying in the gutters, then sure, that's true. If you do mind, then taxing stupid is, well, stupid, because you just end up helping the stupid people out even more on the back-end, especially if the money collected from the stupid people doesn't get funneled directly toward helping them out.
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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by tsotha on Monday February 24, 2014 @09:18PM (#7294833)
Nonsense. If they don't spend it on lottery tickets they'll spend it on booze or drugs. Poor people are poor for a reason.
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