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News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 6, 2007
Contact: Clifford Schaffer
Email: info@letuspaytaxes.com
Number: 661-268-0442
Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars
August 6 -- A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state
budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us Pay Taxes makes the offer
through its web site LetUsPayTaxes.com.
The offer comes at a time when the California legislature is deadlocked on a new
budget and California has stopped issuing checks for vitally needed social
services. Legislators are currently arguing over which programs will be cut in
order to balance the budget.
“It is ridiculous that California can’t pay its bills,” said spokesman Clifford
Schaffer. “It is a tragedy that they will cut badly needed services and
programs such as medical care for the elderly and prison drug treatment when
the money to fund all these programs and more is there and available. Everyone
who is currently waiting for a check from the state should be enraged at this
foolishness.”
Regulation and taxation of marijuana could produce six billion dollars in
additional tax revenue, according to economic studies linked from their web
site LetUsPayTaxes.com. In addition, it could save up to ten billion dollars in
enforcement costs. “That is a conservative estimate,” said Schaffer. “By other
estimates, the revenues could be five times that. The economists are with us
all the way on this one. Marijuana prohibition is an economic disaster.”
“Let’s face reality,” Schaffer says. “Marijuana legalization is inevitable. The
situation is already beyond control in California. The state and local
authorities have offered safe harbor for medical marijuana use and the Federal
Government simply doesn’t have the resources for effective control.”
More importantly, says Schaffer, the operators of the medical marijuana clubs
are no longer afraid of the Federal Government. “If you talk to them, you will
find that they know they are going to win this battle. They know that the DEA
is vastly outnumbered and can’t begin to prosecute all of them. The few that
are prosecuted are accepting their fate as martyrs because they know what they
are doing is right. They are willing to sacrifice themselves to make the point
that the Federal Government has just gone too far in interfering with very
personal and private decisions. There is no way the DEA is going to win this
battle. At this point, it is all over but the counting of the money – and the
victims of the DEA.”
Schaffer went on to say that the national market for marijuana has been
estimated from a low of ten billion dollars per year to more than fifty billion
dollars per year. “The first states to regulate and tax marijuana will receive
an economic bonanza bigger than the original California Gold Rush,” says
Schaffer. “Some states will get rich like the Saudis.”
Schaffer predicts that it will not take long for some local areas to wake up to
the economic possibilities. “We are talking potentially big bucks here,” he
said. “The Canadians are already starting to take note of a cannabis-fueled
economic boom in some areas. Politicians can’t resist fresh cash, especially
when it is coming to their local community. There will be big winners and
losers here. The winners will be the ones who recognize the foregone conclusion
first.”
The group also cites foreign terrorism as a reason to regulate and tax
marijuana. “Drug Czar John Walters is being dishonest when he says that
marijuana money goes to criminals and terrorists. The only reason any of that
money goes to criminals or terrorists is because of the prohibition that
Walters supports,” said Schaffer. “Marijuana prohibition makes criminals rich
just like alcohol prohibition did. The criminals are now so rich and powerful
that they can challenge the legitimate governments of their own countries.
There is no reason to send billions of dollars per year to foreign criminal
gangs when patriotic Americans make the best products in the world. There is no
reason to suffer such a huge foreign trade deficit when that money could be
providing jobs and funding badly needed services right here in the USA.”
Let Us Pay Taxes calls upon all US citizens to sign their petition at their web
site http://LetUsPayTaxes.com and press the issue with their lawmakers. “Take
the money, please,” said Schaffer. “These people want to contribute. Now it is
up to our politicians to tell us why they want to send those billions to
foreign criminal gangs rather than to their own voters.”
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