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    Default California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    So much for drive in tourists...



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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    oh noes! im driving there tomorrow! boo!
    The best thing i have heard in a strip club to date:
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    customer: hmm... nah actually i will take the shotgun marriage. At least then we would be having sex.


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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    Arizona had to do this for a period of time, as well. Fortunately, we're opening most of them back up. It is f'ed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol View Post
    So much for drive in tourists...

    http://media.ccomrcdn.com/media/stat...80632_2708.mp3

    (KFI 640 AM podcast)
    ???How long is this clip? And when approximately is the discussion of closing rest areas?

    Thought I'd give it a listen but got bored of all the babbling 2-3 minutes in...

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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    It looks like California found a new source of revenue ...



    (snip)"The state Board of Equalization, which last year famously declared that legalizing marijuana could generate $1.4 billion in new tax revenues for California state coffers, has an updated analysis out for Proposition 19, the November ballot measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

    This time, the BOE says it is clueless on what legal weed can bring in.

    Officials also said it may take them months – or years – to implement potentially needed systems for collecting new marijuana taxes that may result from Proposition 19.

    In its previous analysis, the BOE heavily based its tax revenues estimate on a $50 per ounce pot tax proposed in state legislation by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. But no such tax is proposed in Proposition 19.

    The initiative leaves it up to local governments to tax and regulate retail marijuana operations. Ammiano, D-San Francisco, has introduced a bill to regulate the sale of recreational pot, but he says he'll likely pick up his push in the Legislature for a statewide pot tax if Proposition 19 is approved."(snip)


    ... and you can pretty much count on Prop 19 passing too ...



    (snip)"OAKLAND, Calif. -- As organized labor faces declining membership, one of the country's most storied unions is looking to a new growth industry: marijuana.

    The Teamsters added nearly 40 new members earlier this month by organizing the country's first group of unionized marijuana growers. Such an arrangement is likely only possible in California, which has the nation's loosest medical marijuana laws."(snip)

    (snip)"The new members work as gardeners, trimmers and cloners for Marjyn Investments LLC, an Oakland business that contracts with medical marijuana patients to grow their pot for them.

    Their newly negotiated two-year contract provides them with a pension, paid vacation and health insurance. Their current wages of $18 per hour will increase to $25.75 an hour within 15 months, according to the union."(snip)

    (snip)"LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has blasted California's largest union for supporting a November ballot measure to legalize marijuana.

    The governor wrote an opinion piece for Friday's Los Angeles Times, calling it a flawed initiative that would make California a laughingstock, cause legal nightmares and risk public safety.

    Schwarzenegger's piece attacks the 700,000-member Service Employees International Union for endorsing the measure.

    The SEIU has said the plan could bring tax income to fill empty government coffers.

    The governor says the union could do more to save jobs and prevent budget cuts by embracing pension reform."(snip)


    however, in California at least, there appears to be no question whatsoever how the governor = state spending cuts versus unions = state tax increases impass will soon be resolved ...



    (snip)"How bad has the California budget crisis gotten? Banks are canceling state credit cards for lack of payment, resulting in one case, of toilet paper running out in rural parks.

    The Los Angeles Times published an internal email from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Bottom line: Remote rural state parks will likely run out of toilet paper by early October." Here we all thought that the inevitable lack of toilet tissue when you enter a state park or beach lavatory happened no matter what the state's credit worthiness was.

    The California debacle is all about the inability of the governor and the legislature to do something the state has become infamous for: compromise on what to cut from the budget and how much and for what purpose taxes will be increased. This year the budget gap is $19 billion. That's not the size of the total budget mind you, it's the amount the state doesn't have in tax revenue and bond-loan money.

    State of California has been without a budget for 85 days to begin this fiscal year
    The impasse has lasted for 85 days into the new fiscal year, almost three months without a budget and the money to pay a fair number of the state debts. Here who is unfairly impacted: thousands of small and large business who are suppliers for things as mundane as the aforementioned toilet paper, printing services, food suppliers to prisons and operators of state health clinics.

    One of the hardest hit groups are landlords of state offices. Without a budget there is no money available for lease payments. Next to feel the pinch, will be contractors on current highway projects if a new budget is not passed in Sacramento.

    On the horizon for this November is a ballot measure entitled Proposition 25. It reduces the number of votes necessary to get a budget through the legislature from the current two-thirds to a simple majority"(snip)

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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    I always figured that if the government legalized weed, they'd end up subsidizing it like with tobacco.

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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    I remember driving through Arizona last Spring with no rest stops. Sucked.
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    As Katherine Hepburn put it so eloquently " Nature is what we were put here to rise above"

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    They won't get any money off that weed. The underground economy is already there - pay taxes - pay permit fees - rent a storefront - have government bureaucrats digging in your private papers? Come on!

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    ^^^ think post-prohibition gov't regulation / taxation of Alcohol manufacture and sales. Remember that the pot taxes / license fees will be helping to pay the salaries of all of those civil service employees enforcing the regulations and collecting the taxes !!!

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    ^^^ The difference is those people were 1) citizens and 2) accustomed to it from before prohibition. It is going to be a battle of who has the best quality, safety, and ease of sale.

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    Default Re: California so f'ed they are closing rest areas

    you think so do you ?

    (snip)"Oakland Approves Four Marijuana Factories

    The cash-strapped city stands to benefit later if voters pass a November initiative to legalize recreational use of marijuana. In addition, Oakland's four marijuana factories would pay an annual fee of $211,000, which would support a city staff to ensure they are operated safely and securely.

    The ordinance has provoked a backlash from small-time growers who fear exclusion from the booming pot trade.

    "This is about big money," Gieringer told ABCNews.com. "These are, by far, the largest facilities ever proposed in the United States. With only four competitors, it's going to be an oligopoly."

    Sponsors of the ordinance have vowed to pass regulations to qualify small and midsized growers for city permits.

    Oakland would still allow small unregulated cultivation in homes but replaces hundreds of larger operations with the four industrial operations "as the only legal model."

    The midsized operations are often set up in gutted homes and warehouses, posing fire hazards because of electrical fires and spawning violent crime.(snip)

    (snip)One firm, AgraMed, hopes to convert empty industrial buildings into pot factories the size of two football fields that will produce about 58 pounds of marijuana per day. And it expects to hire 371 workers and pay at least $1.5 million a year in taxes. Faced with severe budget deficits, Oakland has already eliminated 80 police officer positions.

    Another contender is a firm called iGrow, which has a 15,000-foot hydroponics superstore that is billed as the first to cater openly to medical marijuana growers. (snip)

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