Feb. 15, 2009
Dear Max and friends,
Why finish the idea in taxing cigarette smokers? The smokers only perform this habit to relieve anxiety and frustration.
Speaking of relieving tension and budget problems: I have another tax idea to help Rhode Islanders with anxiety woes.
On this matter, I am amazed some intelligent lawyer in the Rhode Island General Assembly has not suggested legalizing marijuana and prostitution to close up a $375 million budget shortfall. In this proposed solution, the state could establish a marijuana manufacturing plant or brothels of distinction in East Greenwich, Lincoln, Barrington or Narragansett. These communities seem so impoverished, they could use the manufacturing base for local government taxation.
Therefore, the state could tax and regulate marijuana and prostitution. Pot growers and "evening workers" could be tested for product integrity and licensed as are teachers, plumbers, and electricians. In the meantime, job creation would result from testing bureaucracies.
In closing, one better conclude these ideas before some state politician admires these suggestions and actually proposes them on the House floor.
Peace, Jim