Here's a tax people are happy about: Oakland just passed a pot tax.

Well that goes with the California budget "resolution" - take more money from people dying of something, take money from schools, take money from grants for higher education from the poor, take money from the elderly and disabled, take money from cities, lay off law enforcement all over the place including the border where there is war.

Sounds fair. not.

I agree with the 'furloughs' for state workers however, because they are lucky to have jobs - sorry about less income and a few days off (really, but that's the breaks)

..and I think we could live without half the politicians - get rid of one and I bet you could pay 5 cops that are needed

Back to Oakland - they grounded the ONLY police helicopter except for emergenices - yeh in one of the highest crime cities in the country. Seems the heli costs $400k to run per year for incidentals like traffic and whatever they use it for.

Maybe the pot tax on the dying will help get the heli whirling again...

Having said all that I am as pleased as punch about this:

"Advocates of legalizing pot for recreational use hope to use Oakland's experience with Measure F to persuade California voters next year to approve a measure that would legalize and regulate marijuana like alcohol."

YOWZA!

(however i am pretty sure the closed-minded, dunder-headed will prevail with their ignorance as usual, and it will never happen).

This may be the first medical marijuana tax, but the first marijuana tax was 1937, made possible by the marijuana stamp tax act., and as far as I know, you can still get the marijuana stamp, atleast you could up to about 2002