Comments on: Legalized = Taxed? http://www.arizonarifleman.com/2008/10/20/legalized-taxed/ Shooter, Scientist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Arizona Rifleman http://www.arizonarifleman.com/2008/10/20/legalized-taxed/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Arizona Rifleman Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:56:53 +0000 http://www.arizonarifleman.com/?p=413#comment-348 Robert, I agree that if marijuana is legalized, then it will be taxed as an ordinary commercial product and people can buy it at retail. However, many of the "legalize it, tax it" people I hear seem to suggest that it should carry some sort of extra tax, like taxes on tobacco products. I have yet to hear them explain why those taxes should be implemented, or what benefit they would serve -- they don't have the same value as, say, fuel taxes. It seems like those taxes would just be used for general revenue. Robert,

I agree that if marijuana is legalized, then it will be taxed as an ordinary commercial product and people can buy it at retail.

However, many of the “legalize it, tax it” people I hear seem to suggest that it should carry some sort of extra tax, like taxes on tobacco products. I have yet to hear them explain why those taxes should be implemented, or what benefit they would serve — they don’t have the same value as, say, fuel taxes. It seems like those taxes would just be used for general revenue.

]]> By: Robert http://www.arizonarifleman.com/2008/10/20/legalized-taxed/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Robert Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:49:20 +0000 http://www.arizonarifleman.com/?p=413#comment-347 Just speculating here; if marijuana is legalized, not just de-criminalized (they aren't the same), then it will be farmed commercially for profit, and anything that is farmed commercially for profit is taxed, or should be. Think in terms of tobacco: sure, anyone who wants to forego taxes could raise their own tobacco, cure it, and make it into cigars, pipe tobacco or cigarettes, but for the majority who just want to grab a pack of smokes the commercial farm (taxed) is the convenient way to go. Just speculating here; if marijuana is legalized, not just de-criminalized (they aren’t the same), then it will be farmed commercially for profit, and anything that is farmed commercially for profit is taxed, or should be. Think in terms of tobacco: sure, anyone who wants to forego taxes could raise their own tobacco, cure it, and make it into cigars, pipe tobacco or cigarettes, but for the majority who just want to grab a pack of smokes the commercial farm (taxed) is the convenient way to go.

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