The Dumbing Of Americans

California seems to be the one state full of people that believe they are a shining example of how the rest of the United States citizens should live and believe.

California is one of those cutting edge states that has one in five people on welfare, a spending budget that parallels that of the United States Government, and above all they have the group of the smartest people in the world all located in one area of the state in a place called Hollywood.

Being on the cutting edge and out of money because of all their entitlement programs that are spending money faster than the four working people out of five can share their wealth, they have come up with another brilliant idea.

Marijuana is a $14 billion industry in California, and rather than policing the problem, California wants to legalize it and tax it.

Their idea is to make it legal to grow and sell it thus allowing the government to tax it. The brilliant minds estimate they could collect $50.00 an ounce.

California's argument is if you can't control an illegal activity, you should legalize and tax it.

We all know all those honest growers and sellers would be happy to pay their taxes, don't we.

I don't live in California, so unlike a Californian, I am too stupid to know the answer, but wonder when things are legal don't prices come down thus the tax estimate becomes less?

You know the more I think about this new taxing idea, since crime is so rampant around the country, rather than arresting people for crime we tax all crime.

No jail time, just tax time.

So like if you rob a house, you should be taxed 28% of the depreciated value on the items you steal.

I'm not sure what the tax rate should be set at for, to name a few, pedophiles, spousal batterers, kidnappers, rapists and murders. I would assume those tax rates would be a lot higher.

If you are reading this and live in California, would you please enlighten my readers and me?

I am afraid of the direction our country is headed.



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