Christie: Tax revenue from legal cannabis sales is 'blood money'

[devil21]

Pander to those reefer madness blue hairs, Chris!

http://www.app.com/story/news/polit...ie/2015/03/25/taxes-pot-blood-money/70438126/

“I’ve had many taxpayers at town hall meetings who will ask me about, why not legalize marijuana to make the taxes go a little higher? To me, that’s blood money. I’m not going to put the lives of children and citizens at risk to put a little more money into the state coffers, at least not on my watch.”

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'm quite sure he has no moral qualms about taking cigarette or booze taxes...

 

[r3volution 3.0]

How about taxes on cheesecakes and butter?

 

[Sola_Fide]

I'm quite sure he has no moral qualms about taking cigarette or booze taxes...

Yeah, things that actually kill people.

 

[jkr]

fo REAL?
and as for bridges...

didnt YOUR ACTION actually KILL someone

UNELECTABLE

 

[roho76]

I’m not going to put the lives of children and citizens at risk to put a little more money into the state coffers, at least not on my watch.

Unless you get to clobber them over the heads......when they don't pay the tax bill.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Like asset forfeiture?

 

[thoughtomator]

Tax revenue from Twinkie sales, on the other hand...

 

[phill4paul]

No, no. You've got it all wrong. He is against legalizing it because he doesn't want IRS SWAT raids that might kill women and children when the government comes to collect the taxes. I'm sure he is simply for decriminalization. See, Christie is a good guy.

 

[Dr.3D]

Sure wouldn't want the state taking any blood money. It's best that they don't tax it at all.

 

[devil21]

fo REAL?
and as for bridges...

didnt YOUR ACTION actually KILL someone

UNELECTABLE

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/08/nation/la-na-nn-new-jersey-bridge-death-20140108

In September, according to a report from the Bergen Record, paramedics trying to reach an unconscious 91-year-old woman in Fort Lee, N.J., got stuck in a traffic jam that had apparently been created by Christie's associates as political punishment for the borough's mayor, a Democrat. Multiple lanes were forced to merge into one, gridlocking traffic for days.

The woman later died at a hospital of cardiac arrest, according to a Sept. 10 letter that EMS coordinator Paul Favia sent to the borough's mayor.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

income tax is also blood money imo.

 

[Weston White]

So, by that logic, is not revenue generated upon individual wages then peonage 'slave money'?

 

[Weston White]

And it is not an excuse in our society to say that alcohol is legal so why not make marijuana legal. … Well … why not make heroin legal? Why not make cocaine legal?

Because two do not involve the use chemistry equipment and synthetic compounds, while the other two do. The more pertinent question is why he was ever voted into office. ...Oh yea his constituents are from New Jersey.

BTW, he is required to pay taxes on his illegal income, just as much as his legal income--making his state's income taxes 'blood money'.

 

[Millennial Conservatarian]

I'm quite sure he has no moral qualms about taking cigarette or booze taxes...

lol... when weed has literally never killed a person ever.... while alcohol and tobacco are directly responsible for tens of millions (guesstimate?) deaths..... fck this fat pile of sh1t

 

[willwash]

Desperate