The federal government should legalize and tax marijuana and Internet gambling to help get the country out of the current debt crisis, writes Rep. Jared Polis, a second-term Colorado Democrat, on Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page.
Though many Republicans have signed the anti-tax pledge put forward by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, that promise “does not preclude provisions that will increase revenue without actually increasing taxes on Americans,” Polis argues. Read more »
From our interview with Colorado’s US Rep. Jared Polis on NORML SHOW LIVE, Feb 7, 2011 – questions and answers have been abbreviated for clarity.
NORML SHOW LIVE: How has your stance on marijuana reform affected your interactions with your colleagues in the House [of Representatives]?
REP. JARED POLIS: You know, I find that a lot of members of Congress privately agree that we need to change our drug policy, they’re just still too timid or scared to come public with it. That’s kind of what I find. I find very few that are ‘hard core’ on the other side.
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The federal government should legalize and tax marijuana and Internet gambling to help get the country out of the current debt crisis, writes Rep. Jared Polis, a second-term Colorado Democrat, on Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page.
From our interview with Colorado’s US Rep. Jared Polis on NORML SHOW LIVE, Feb 7, 2011 – questions and answers have been abbreviated for clarity.
