More local governments bend over for cash as the economy slows.
Alcohol has rarely been in short supply at airports, but some cash-strapped local governments are taking steps to open the taps further.
Along with Prop 19 in California, prostitution taxes in Nevada, and legalizing online gambling by Congress, its just more evidence that the vast majority of government moral grandstanding is so much fluff to pander to the voters. When the rubber meets the road and they need money, they would rather find new taxation by legalizing previously unthinkable activities instead of taking a good hard look at existing spending outlays.
Legal or illegal has NOTHING to do with taxation (or shouldn’t). Its about what needs to be agreed upon in the social contract of the community in order to coexist peacefully with one another.
I guess you really should never let a good crisis go to waste.
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