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Originally Posted by alltherage
I've never seen beef sold by 1/10 of a pound. I've seen it for about $5 a pound. If your burger is 1/10 then the patty alone is $0.50. The you have to consider 2 patties... $1. Then you have to consider a bun... $0.30. Then you also have to consider the time it takes you to make it, the cost of your house for that 20 minutes or so, the electricity you use, the vegitables and condiments you put on it... by that time you are well above $1.69.
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No... I could go home and make a ty burger topped with diced onions, ketchup mustard, on a tiny bun for under 50 cents. The most expensive ingredient would probably be the cheese. I also don't know if you can call a pickel slice and diced onions "vegetables", but the $1.69 double cheesburgers don't exactly contain the highest quality ingredients..
Not to mention I doubt McDonalds is making much profit at all off the 1.69 double cheeseburgers. In fact, once you factor in the cost of running the restaurant and staff, they are probably losing money. They make the profit off the guy who buys a drink or fries to go with them or the people who buy the more expensive sandwiches. If McDonalds were selling nothing but double cheeseburgers, they would go out of business.
I think restaurant food is probably the worst example you could have used. The mark up on it is horrendous.
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Originally Posted by alltherage
And Yes, the tax on cigarettes was niknamed the "sin" tax. It is taxed heavily because of the back end health costs, as well as the simple fact that they are trying to discourage people from smoking. The government doesnt want people to die slow horrible cancerous deaths. They have made the taxes prohibitively high.
I dont think they would do that with marijuana if it is being consumed in food, drinks, or from vaporizers where, again, there are zero proven health implications.
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I'm glad that you have such a great view of big government, but I just don't see how that's realistic in any way.
The government will tax marijuana because they can. People will will be willing to pay $10.00+ a joint to avoid police and drug dealers and for the benefit of knowing what they are getting, so the government will tax that amount.
The government will easily be able to turn people on marijuana the way they have on smoking to justify the taxes. It won't be hard in any way to come up with reasons for why being baked all day has a societal cost.