From my Mentor

Hello Folks,
   This is an interesting piece of mail I received from my Mentor and the smartest man I know.   I cannot give credit to those who documented the stated tax figures as I do not know the sources used nor his name as it may cause him harm but he knows who he is and I'm glad to know him.  Feeling fully comfortable with this man I am sure he did his homework, which is what makes him far more exceptional than I.

Legalization of marijuana will incur....

 

  The end to the Drug War in Mexico...,the slow down the illegal immigration issue save costs for Homeland Security & Border Patrol.    A taxation of an American cash crop that will assist in lowering our deficit and insure a healthier citizenry (stoners on average are healthier than drunks and crackheads), a relief against the illegal status of hemp as well (a long time ago a bunch of lunatics piled them together as the Big Evil) which will lead to cheaper paper, bio diesel, and cheaper textile supply than cotton (a predicted economy worth about 15 billion dollars a year world wide!)

 

  Some evangelical Republican moron will harp about imposing a moral political perspective and we just have to tell them that creating an economy based on selling small arms to the Mexican adversaries (yes Virginia we supply both side because we be greedy bastards) in the Drug War is as immoral as you can get---profit via the violent deaths of your neighbors. Now that's a sin!   Also, we sold about 2.1 billion dollars in small arms and accessories to the Drug War participants.

 

  Just imagine...legal weed...average consumption about a six pack of units (small doobies, cookies, etc) per week...let's say the average price is about 10 bucks.  The sin tax is about 10% or about a dollar a purchase....there is about 5 million pot heads (that will admit it)...$5M tax increase a week X 52 weeks=$260M

 

  If we replaced corn with hemp and charged the same amount that would equate to $390M tax increase per year.

 

  Based on the amount of equipment needed to sustain both markets we will need at minimum 1.8 billion bucks of machinery per year (farms, automated factories, shipping.etc) which will create about 1 million jobs. Tax the OEMs, the farmers, the workers and bingo--instant 280 million rocks in tax revenue.

 

  All together we will gain 930 million dollars a year...add the cost savings of a smaller police state, the tax revenues from double cheeseburgers and pizza we may have a billion dollars a year for free!

 

  THIS IS REAL EASY THINKING ISN'T IT? That is why Boehner is such a boner because he lives in a big box of bullshit and he can't think out of it.

Some day we will come to our senses.

Thanks to my good friend....
AMF...