Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
You can't make the argument of "it's not your money, so you shouldn't care," when the money is being turned over to the state, which is in the same position of "it's not your money." What claim dies the state have for that tax revenue? None.
I look at it as a direct correlation from where that $1 was spent. For example:

pot out head spends $100 at pot shop. $10% of that is sales tax. $10 goes to gov. Pot shop pays another 20% in income tax. Their money which goes to profit, employees, overhead etc. is 70% of total cost. They get $70.

In reality, they were overtaxed, so the person spending the money, the pot head, should have spent $90 for that same pot. 3% was overcharged as sales tax, 7% was overcharged to the pot shop as income tax. That same portion should be returned to the pothead/pot shop. In reality, the pot shop might have charged the same price and pocked the extra profit, or they might have charged less allowing the pothead to either save $$ or buy more.

in the end, not $1 of that money came from me directly, so why should I get any of it back in the form of a refund or tax break? The question was would I rather get $$ that wasn't mine, or give a large portion of it to build schools, have drug programs (needed thanks to the added availability of drugs) and another smaller portion pissed away by the .gov.

i agree the state didn't have a claim for that tax revenue, and it should have been given back to the pot businesses and potheads, but that wasn't the way the bill was written.