Feds: Seattle IRS agent accepted bribe from marijuana shop owner

[Betterhaff]

That’s part of the hypocrisy of federal prohibition and state legalization. Even though it’s illegal on a federal level the feds still want their tax money from legal state pot businesses.

 

[Stoner4Life]

Well they do that when you refuse to/can't pay your taxes, but obviously we're just going to have to agree to disagree. If you wanna call the feds that's your deal but you're getting blacklisted for sure.
If you're gonna call the feds when you brought the whole thing on yourself (by not paying HOW MUCH in taxes??) then what are you gonna if you get popped? Rat on the guy with more plants than you? It's not the way IMO but S4L you go your way I'll go mine I hope we never cross paths cuz I don't need people like that in my life.

between you & me, who the fuck ever said anything about ratting out another grower???


EDIT:
and btw, I'm way too smart than to put myself in the same position that the idiot this thread is about did. The feds are just dying to bury every 'dishonest' pot shop owners they can, the guy did what he had to do regardless of his own stupidity. I couldn't/wouldn't put myself in the same class of the jerk not paying his taxes, so this doesn't apply to my principles at all.......

 

[Stoner4Life]

That’s part of the hypocrisy of federal prohibition and state legalization. Even though it’s illegal on a federal level the feds still want their tax money from legal state pot businesses.

not arguing with you at all Betterhaff, but isn't that what we as proponents of legalization having been claiming all along, if the govt. would allow us the freedom to grow & sell weed that the tax burden would be lighter? as an industry there would be no other benefit for the govt to legalize aside from taxing it. the states are benefiting from the taxes on sales & income, while the feds are benefiting only by reported income taxes as far as I know.

damn, just wait until they have a federal tax on weed, those greedy pricks are gonna make the prices so high that black/gray market weed will make its comeback, just like moonshiners and un-taxed tobacco does today.

and surely it's not legalized on the federal level yet but it is being somewhat tolerated with a few exceptions here and there. trying to fuck them out of tax $$$ is not going to endear them to the idea of legalization down the road.

they obviously don't approve but they can't sit by and allow capital gains to go un-taxed, it's the way they got Al Capone back in the day, and they still get plenty of illegal drug dealers the same way today.

 

[Betterhaff]

No you’re right Stoner, income is income regardless of its source. I guess I got caught up in the content of the story in the thread, the worm from the fed taking advantage a state legal business deemed illegal by the fed.

Sure the gov’t would love to put an excise tax on it but they can’t at present because of their rules.

Believe me I’m an advocate for legalization. It’s legal for me to make my own beer and wine, I can grow my own tobacco (a little more difficult) and don’t have to pay taxes of any sort. The same should apply to MJ. If I don’t want or can’t grow it (brown thumb syndrome) then I should be able to go somewhere and buy it.

Black markets will always exist, especially if the mechanisms that establish price drive it too high.