Yea, I did tell you about me theory on taxing drugs, but Derzorch is right. They can tax and regulate things like cigarrettes because they've been around and the government worked it's way in from the beginning. But there's so many cartels and flowing veins of drugs into the US, the government would never, ever be able to regulate or tax it. This is why drugs were made illegal in the first place. The government doesn't care about your well being. People found their ways of getting it without government taxes and regulations, so they made it illegal to discourage the use of a product they can't make a profit on. The "War On Drugs" is exactly how Derzorch described it: perpetual. It'll never end. Although, I'm not sure exactly how profitable it is: pawning the assets they seize can make them millions and millions of dollars, but at the same time, they're wasting millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. Hard to say really how profitable it is, but even if it's not profitable at all, it could just be a method of money transfer for the "black projects" she describes.
I agree with Derzorch again in that "a person's thoughts are never a waste of time." Even though I disagree with a lot of the stuff here, it's still your thoughts, and therefore not a waste.
I agree with you on the gas and such... the government does end up being the scape goat for many things. It's often made a puppet as well, do you know of GATS and the WTO?
But you see, sir, I am no she... Haha, do you know who I am?
I'm so sorry, I would have sworn you left a comment in my LJ quite some time ago referring to yourself as a female, I apologize. But no, I haven't heard of GATS, although WTO sounds vaguely familiar. And no, I don't know who you are, and I'm sorry again for thinking you were a she.
Ah, GATS (stands for General Agreement on Trade in Services) has this one section which says that if a law is more hindering to business than beneficial society then a GATS council has the right to review that law and strike it down if it wishes. This is a treaty set up by the WTO, the WTO being the World Trade Organisation. So basically, the government can make a law, but business now has veto power. NAFTA has a similar section. NAFTA is in North America, GATS is European. The WTO goes along with a lot of similar organisations with two or three letter acronyms... World Bank (WB), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Internation Monetary Fund (IMF), Group of 8 (G8) -- that's a group of nations which represent 2/3's of the worlds economy.
I don't really care you called me a she, it was just that I didn't think you knew who I was and that you called me a she was the basis of this assumption. My name would be Zach Rollyson.
I agree with Derzorch again in that "a person's thoughts are never a waste of time." Even though I disagree with a lot of the stuff here, it's still your thoughts, and therefore not a waste.
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But you see, sir, I am no she... Haha, do you know who I am?
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I don't really care you called me a she, it was just that I didn't think you knew who I was and that you called me a she was the basis of this assumption. My name would be Zach Rollyson.
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