Re: Tax Source benefit from legalized pot.
Today many pot dealers are willing to risk often clumsy assassination by competitors and long prison terms for doing the same. All to protect their territory and profits.
If legalized, will someone explain to me why dealers then become such law abiding citizens they are unwilling to risk long drawn out court cases for tax evasion with a now business oriented white-collar crime court policy and often negotiated guilty pleas and fines.
If possibly lucrative pot licenses are doled out to a new set of honest pot dealers (and some may already be negotiated as elected reps grab at any new taxes for investing, wasting, or administering other people's money) will the present dealers accept the new law and vanish?
Or is it likely they will continue to compete and require even more extensive and costly policing, prosecuting, Law Court processing and sentencing time to ensure a promised suitable market share for the new licensed operators? That could show a benefit of employment opportunities for new investigators and tax collectors to replace the 20/20 vision departed and create a profit bubble for morticians as well.
But possible the Gov't has acquired a new serum whereby they can be vaccinated against dishonesty or it has a source of dishonesty pills like birth controls pills that they must swallow every morning.
It could be the only law mostly operative with this trendy theory will be the law of unintended consequences.
Harold Burgoyne
Prince George
