Sweet Louise, it's pretty easy to understood what made the OP's jaw drop.
His point is: States generate more tax income via pot, which means the Federal government needs to give less tax money to said states. Since the states need less money from the FEDS, the FEDS will need to collect less money from you and me.
Does anyone believe that A) the states will want less money from the FEDS? B) That the FEDS will collect less money from us?
I think, as time goes on the states are going to have to come up with some way to pay their debts without putting the pinch on the federal government.
Right now one of the big debts in many states are government pensions.
At some point, the states are going to have to find some way to fund those pensions or tell the people that they're going to have to do without them.
,..and keep in mind,..these are government employees who are going to take the hit.
So,..when the debt problems of a state government starts to directly affect the incomes of the employees of the state government, the state government will look for ways to generate revenue.
Right now, big chunks of revenue are getting sent to the cartels in Mexico.
So a decision has to be made.
Do you want the Mexican cartels to get your pensions and your benefits?,...or do you want to keep them for yourself?
It's a no brainer.
