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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But one of the big justifications for legalizing pot in the first place was for government to get tax revenue from it. If you had tried to sell legalization to the public without the prospect of public revenue, I don’t know that you get the political buy-in. Even with the ‘greedy’ tax rates governments have set, they’re not generating nearly as much tax revenue from pot as projected.
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...because people are buying off market...because taxes are so high...
They could change course to see if doing something different would work better.