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Originally posted by FireFly@Sep 30 2005, 03:44 PM
Your math would suggest it's closer to $40 million/DAY they make, not year.
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Or $14,240,000,000 per year collected in taxes. The Federal government spent or gave to the provincial govt.s 35.5 billion in 2004 of a total 88 billion spent on healthcare by our govt.s.
I have no idea how much we collect from booze taxes but if we had a junk food tax and were able to legalize pot and tax the hell out of it too, these sin taxes would take a big bite out of our health care costs. Oh yea, don't forget the govt. profits made from gambling.
Forgetting about tax dollars, I wouldn't mind seeing tobacco companies driven into bankruptcy. They're worse then drug pushers.