tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post8921589445053140341..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : The Narcosocialist Republic of CaliforniaDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30853300572401412542020-11-15T18:17:52.000-05:002020-11-15T18:17:52.000-05:00California is just like the republic. The narcosca...California is just like the republic. The narcoscalist..and the article is 100% right. I live there and has to said - the narco business is growing fast!olejki cbd sklephttps://cbdgreen.plnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-68435192386929233612019-03-22T02:48:00.619-04:002019-03-22T02:48:00.619-04:00The differences between them are significant.The differences between them are significant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25928310810865807942019-03-20T23:30:30.491-04:002019-03-20T23:30:30.491-04:00If you can afford to get out of mexafornia and fin...If you can afford to get out of mexafornia and fine a better place to live, DO IT NOW!!!!!<br />It is NOT going to get any better over the next 20 years in mexafornia.<br />HeltauAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-18228984664910637482019-03-18T02:31:46.662-04:002019-03-18T02:31:46.662-04:00In fact, it's the material that makes them str...In fact, it's the material that makes them strong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21278483182725639202019-03-11T08:46:30.589-04:002019-03-11T08:46:30.589-04:00The problem with sin taxes is that they have to be...The problem with sin taxes is that they have to be high enough to be worth it, high enough to make the claim that social engineering is a social good, but not so high that they're actually effective enough to suppress the activity they're trying to regulate. It's true more or less for any tax on a voluntary purchase or activity. This is what happens in Europe where gas might cost roughly USD$9 a gallon. The intent is to make people not drive while at the same time capture massive taxes from the people who can't abandon their cars and trucks. Eventually they reach a tipping point and Yellow Vests boil into the streets every Saturday. <br /><br />But one thing that California is missing out on is the energy costs of pot farming. Because pot is profitable enough to be produced indoors, grow operations use lighting around the clock 24hrs a day. The energy costs are huge. So large in fact that the DEA can use drones to pick out the heat signatures of pot operations. California should be charging massive taxes and tariffs on grow operations until their electricity comes from renewable sources. That's kind of the point of California, no? I addition, the retail taxes should be scaled along the same basis that alcohol is taxed - according to the quantity of the active ingredient. The stronger the weed the higher the tax. That's how sin taxes work. That's how gas guzzler taxes work. That's how progressive views of income taxes work. The more you can afford the higher your rate of taxation. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27620909341824256862019-03-10T15:54:04.144-04:002019-03-10T15:54:04.144-04:00https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/news/marijuana-grow...https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/news/marijuana-grow-site-found-in-santa-monica-mountains.htm 2011 description includes environmental disturbance.<br />--malcaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-44042951162139610612019-03-08T12:15:25.773-05:002019-03-08T12:15:25.773-05:00Wow, it's like one can feel the oozing and dri...Wow, it's like one can feel the oozing and dripping of California right into the ocean.....down...down...down she goes....sinking lower and lower....Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891450799220978311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48133954423370161162019-03-08T01:39:55.002-05:002019-03-08T01:39:55.002-05:00Figure out how to let us comment by username and e...Figure out how to let us comment by username and email. Google is not friendly, it won't take the email host for name/url. <br /><br />ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5587754461279044902019-03-08T01:39:00.615-05:002019-03-08T01:39:00.615-05:00The Gabbing Nuisance forgets his history and polit...The Gabbing Nuisance forgets his history and politics. Someone needs to remind him of a phenomenon called the Laffer Curve. What is the root of this issue is perfeclty explained by that.<br /><br />But to history.... maybe the Nuisance was too joung to remember, but I'm not. Back in the early 1970's Caifornia was home to the most persistent marijuana industry anywhere. They tried and tried, state, county, feds... never could come close to stamping it out. People would simply walk out into public land, scatter ahandful of weed seeds, disapper, come back in a few weeks on a hike" and note whether anything was growing. Anyone "official" came across it, no idea whom to bust. Over in the Hoopa Nation, hundreds of skillful Indians grew some of the best stuff on the planet, out on the Rez where it was "everyone's land" and no one person could be held to account. Others would head out into the large national forest lands, find an old cedar stump (the old huge ones with springboard notches sill evident, back when misery whips were what brought thos monstars down. Many of those stumps were fifteen feet diameter twenty feet up from the duff. The heartwood will have nicely composted, a huge fertile sponge, drop a handful of seeds in there, continue your "hike", come back in two or three months. harvest and lay out to dry for a few days. Deer can't access it, nosey USDF dweebs never thought to look up, I knew guys that lived on that income alone, and that was when a pound would fetch a dead Benjamin, and a "dime bag" had a standard price of one Hamilton. Lots of folks rented old pre-qar housing for next to nothing, and grew a few stems in the backyard. No one noticed or cared. About the only time anyone got busted was when the sheriff "contacted" someone driving with expired tags, or a bad tail-lamp. If the poor sap was nervous, or seemed a bit 'out of it", searching would duscover the poorly hidden baggie. Then it was off to the hoosegow, but the weed never slowed down. <br /><br />Makes me wonder if The Nuisance is paying the tax on the weed HE"S smoking...... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-16415416719454753202019-03-08T00:40:53.084-05:002019-03-08T00:40:53.084-05:00An utterly first rate article and compulsive readi...An utterly first rate article and compulsive reading. paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5020580216350384482019-03-07T17:59:50.844-05:002019-03-07T17:59:50.844-05:00Very good commentary. The same crowd who cashed in...Very good commentary. The same crowd who cashed in on the drug war when it peaked in the eighties, seizing property through civil forfeiture before conviction, are cashing in on the faux "legalization" or cartelization of the pot industry. The fake economy we are now experiencing, does not provide them with enough tax money. So now they turn, in desperation, to pot to bail them out. Kevinhttp://www.lifelighttech.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-74392571709370774142019-03-07T17:34:53.145-05:002019-03-07T17:34:53.145-05:00Pot Head Nation, who'da thought?Pot Head Nation, who'da thought?Takeda Shingenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465488848857410799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-64512759514115447232019-03-07T15:07:31.274-05:002019-03-07T15:07:31.274-05:00Nailed it.
I've always found it fascinating t...Nailed it. <br />I've always found it fascinating that the states that have the most regulations on everything from business licenses to room additions have the least on citizenship.<br />Why can't I call building a house with out a permit an undocumented dwelling and ask for sanctuary?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14294689900367276585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-24899833766802902162019-03-07T12:06:23.763-05:002019-03-07T12:06:23.763-05:00The government has always been the biggest crime s...The government has always been the biggest crime syndicate.Ned2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90110666896253318402019-03-07T09:14:31.346-05:002019-03-07T09:14:31.346-05:00No big surprise. Because of taxes 80% of cigarette...No big surprise. Because of taxes 80% of cigarettes in New York are black market. Roy Lofquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536815900678298041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7389731928885623682019-03-06T21:57:06.540-05:002019-03-06T21:57:06.540-05:00Excellent post.Excellent post.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15274307974248654811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7506563592191219382019-03-06T14:03:34.484-05:002019-03-06T14:03:34.484-05:00Soooo.... when is some smart-brain in the Cali Car...Soooo.... when is some smart-brain in the Cali Cartel going to figure out they could sell all of that seized pot for profit to the state? Just like they sell seized cars, or tvs or anything except guns...Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.com