Pot

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Seattle City Attorney Apologizes for Taking Pot to Work

Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, one of the biggest backers of Washington's legal marijuana initiative, apologized Friday for taking his legally bought pot to the office — and thereby violating the city's drug-free workplace policy.

Holmes, who helped sponsor Initiative 502, which made Washington the second state to legalize sales of small amounts of recreational marijuana, showed up at Seattle's only legal pot store Tuesday to be one of the first Seattleites to make a purchase. But while the marijuana law has changed, "the workplace rule has not changed," Holmes said in a statement Friday.

After discussions with the city's personnel department, he said, "I have volunteered to donate $3,000 to the Downtown Emergency Service Center.

I apologize to my employees, all city employees and to the public."

Seattle City Attorney Apologizes for Taking Pot to Work - NBC News

 

[Moxie]

Big government will never yield it's centralized power by relinquishing it's monetary power position.

So either people like (some of) us can either pay an ever increasing income tax penalty for "the good of the masses" or they can come up with alternate tax revenue.

Your post seems directed at the federal government, and there is a federal cigarette tax, but for the most part sales taxes are still a state issue.

All things being equal, the higher a state sales tax, the less likely people are to want to live and shop in that state.

About 9 of the US states don't have income tax to begin with. So those particular states are already using alternates to income taxes to fund their budgets.