Here's a good old fashioned way to get public servants to actually serve the public: bribery! Well, bribery in the form of
taxes collected on regulated sales of marijuana. At least that's the plan put forward by one California group:
The Let Us Pay Taxes group has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to be put toward the budget crisis. The thing is; this money will be coming from a coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers. Whats the Terminator to do? Terminate the [budget] crisis with taxes that taxpayers would actually be willing to pay!
This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Keep the smokers happy, generate revenue for the state, keep the money out of criminal hands... Why not?
