Democratic debates

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by MTK

The rabbit hole is much deeper than taxes. How about what keeping it illegal costs us.

Marijuana Prohibition Now Costs The Government $20 Billion A Year: Economist

Matty, again, he's saying it costs all state and federal governments combined $20 billion. Do you know what the federal budget is, in total? $3.8 trillion. So let's not even bother adding in the 50 state budgets into that and just stick with the $3.8 trillion.

$20 billion as a % of $3.8 trillion is 0.5%.

If I convert that in terms of the NFL salary cap, because you know I like that shit, 0.5% of the $153 million salary cap is $765,000. In other words it's one veteran minimum (! lol) salary player.

It's not a big issue.