TAXES - & Utopias

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
>
> >> Alcohol is not banned because the almight government gets a cut in
> >> tax money.
>
> No. The almighty government gets a cut of tax money because alcohol
is
> not banned. If it were banned, moonshiners wouldn't pay taxes on
it.
> How much tax did the government get out of alcohol during Prohibition?
>
> If stoners bought their pot at the local liquor store, all nice and
> legal, their brains would be just as fried and useless, but the
> almighty government would get their share of taxes.
>

Government would be paying even more in welfare payments and treatment
and medical care.

Holland and Switzerland have tried this. They're getting blood money
from it all. But the expenses still exceed revenues.

Alcohol has its flaws, but the damage it does is far less to the brain
and the body than those poisons. And of all those who drink, the
number of addicts in ratio is far far lower.

Society has its evils, yes, but that does not justify adding to them.