Evanston will use recreational marijuana sales tax proceeds to fund local reparations program

Evanston will use recreational marijuana sales tax proceeds to fund local reparations program - Chicago Tribune

“We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston,” said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, 5th Ward, who proposed the reparations bill.[FONT=&quot]While Evanston officials have voted to permit, tax and appropriate money from recreational marijuana sales, many other suburbs have voted not to allow recreational marijuana dispensaries to open when the businesses become legal next year under state law.

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Evanston leaders say they see the dispensaries as an opportunity to pay for a local reparations program that would address the lingering institutional effects of slavery and discrimination. The proposal passed 8-1, with Ald. Tom Suffredin, 6th Ward, voting against it.

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Pot heads to fuel gimmie handouts that are solely for people with the right skin color. /smh

I shake my head harder at the war on drugs, a massive failure and something that affected minorities disproportionately compared to everyone else and has lead to death and havoc across the Americas and empowered massive cartels to destabilize nations and governments.

Something you support.

Or you know, you can get mad at this.

So if someone is already a member of the group getting reparations (or evil inheritance income) for what happened to their ancestors, do we do separate math when calculating their sales tax on pot to exclude the percentage used to pay this out? I'm guessing it's not just the descendants of the slave owners who buy pot

Jetboogieman said:

I shake my head harder at the war on drugs, a massive failure and something that affected minorities disproportionately compared to everyone else and has lead to death and havoc across the Americas and empowered massive cartels to destabilize nations and governments.

Something you support.

Or you know, you can get mad at this.

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But those reparations, tho!

Renae said:

Evanston will use recreational marijuana sales tax proceeds to fund local reparations program - Chicago Tribune


Pot heads to fuel gimmie handouts that are solely for people with the right skin color. /smh

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There is a very simple solution to avoid a city's recreational weed tax - buy your weed outside of that city.

It is highly doubtful that reparations based on one's (self-defined?) race will work as planned or survive a constitutional challenge.

Renae said:

Evanston will use recreational marijuana sales tax proceeds to fund local reparations program - Chicago Tribune


Pot heads to fuel gimmie handouts that are solely for people with the right skin color. /smh

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To use MJ tax revenue as investment to the communities in greatest need is just fine by me. They will, in urban areas, most often be to people of color, anyway. Framing such as "reparations" to black people is unnecessary but for grabbing headlines and some kind of feel-good, looking good, patting oneself on the back kind of thing. It doesn't have to be so direct as planned to have the same effect and not thus be so divisively framed. It's like Elizabeth Warren's "wealth tax". What a stupid way of framing the matter. Just advance the progressive tax system we already have to be at higher rates and with fewer loopholes for the higher incomes, as they rise, than is now.

ttwtt78640 said:

There is a very simple solution to avoid a city's recreational weed tax - buy your weed outside of that city.

It is highly doubtful that reparations based on one's (self-defined?) race will work as planned or survive a constitutional challenge.

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Not so simple. Cities simply require proof of local residency because they don't want to be a magnet to influx of such business from outside of town, even if it means greater tax revenues.

bluesmoke said:

Not so simple. Cities simply require proof of local residency because they don't want to be a magnet to influx of such business from outside of town, even if it means greater tax revenues.

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Can you cite a source for that (bolded above) assertion? I have not experienced that while buying either alcohol or guns.

Assholes suffering from a severe case of White Guilt?

Jetboogieman said:

I shake my head harder at the war on drugs, a massive failure and something that affected minorities disproportionately compared to everyone else and has lead to death and havoc across the Americas and empowered massive cartels to destabilize nations and governments.

Something you support.

Or you know, you can get mad at this.

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You're so right, the Government knew that minorities would be adversely affected, they just can't help themselves from breaking the law, it was a white plan to keep blacks in prison. Gosh, if I were black, I'd be so happy there were people like you who thought so highly of us like that...

Renae said:

You're so right, the Government knew that minorities would be adversely affected, they just can't help themselves from breaking the law, it was a white plan to keep blacks in prison. Gosh, if I were black, I'd be so happy there were people like you who thought so highly of us like that...

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You do not understand because deep down inside, you’re a much bigger conservative than you realize and you choose to turn a blind eye to the reality of what you support, in so many cases.

That’s not something I can fix... you’re a person who vehemently opposes democrats, that’s a perfectly valid opinion to have and take, but then as a trans person you can continue to support the Republican Party in general who’s policy it is to literally take rights away from you.

It’s unlikely someone that misguided could possibly understand the disproportionate impact policies such as the war on drugs had on minorities.

Carry on in your big government yet thinking your small government universe.

Jetboogieman said:

You do not understand because deep down inside, you’re a much bigger conservative than you realize and you choose to turn a blind eye to the reality of what you support, in so many cases.

That’s not something I can fix... you’re a person who vehemently opposes democrats, that’s a perfectly valid opinion to have and take, but then as a trans person you can continue to support the Republican Party in general who’s policy it is to literally take rights away from you.

It’s unlikely someone that misguided could possibly understand the disproportionate impact policies such as the war on drugs had on minorities.

Carry on in your big government yet thinking your small government universe.

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You don't even know what Conservative is, let alone have the ability to castiage anyone about being one. Your view of "Conservative" is a cartoonish and immature caricature of Conservative that fits your need to feel like "I JBM am smart and superior because you believe these things I say you believe".

Get out of here with your nonsense.

Renae said:

You don't even know what Conservative is, let alone have the ability to castiage anyone about being one. Your view of "Conservative" is a cartoonish and immature caricature of Conservative that fits your need to feel like "I JBM am smart and superior because you believe these things I say you believe".

Get out of here with your nonsense.

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You support people who promise to take rights away from you.

Then don’t understand how big government policies adversely affect minorities and then claim to be small government conservative leave it to beaver trip back to the 50’s...

I can’t fix that and I can’t help you see that.

Completely asinine.

So, let's talk about Evanston, since it's practically right in my back yard.

The ghetto of the North Shore...

Evanston is a town that in one area police are pulling down your pants looking for crack rock and in another, home owners are throwing parties and having valet service at their private residences.

Home to Northwestern University

Where they churn out limousine liberals by the boatload all the while training them to be the problem their bleeding hearts can't stand.

Me and the wife have been looking at a home in the North Shore, maybe Wilmette, really liking Highland Park (east of St. John's Ave), maybe even go a little further into Lake Forest.

But Evanston?

Nevah.

and that was before this absurdity they want to engage in.

ttwtt78640 said:

Can you cite a source for that (bolded above) assertion? I have not experienced that while buying either alcohol or guns.

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I'm only going on what I've been told by attorneys in that field, being local government (city, county or county and city) allowed to control what activities are permitted in their jurisdiction. I personally don't know of any local govt with such a limitation as I couldn't even find any complete local law online regarding MJ control. There are locales/states that have various residency requirement to do with dispensaries that I could find online, but no limitation of residency except to have a US ID. So far, states SC ruling tend to favor local jurisdiction that does not conflict with state law. I'm thinking that if a city starts getting lines out the door of a dispensary(s), nearby residents and business will go NIMBY (but you can have and smoke it) and the city can limit pretty much as they see fit. BTW, most anybody, at least in CA, can get a medical MJ card from a physician, no sweat, for such things as common as anxiety and not have to pay sales tax or any locally imposed fee on the purchase of MJ, in which case you only have to be just 18, not 21. That would save a lot of $ and possibly long gas $/time trips to whatever town that does not tax MJ. I don't know of any locales that allow dispensaries w/o some type of tax, a tax which also gets approval from state SC decision.

"The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act provides the general framework for the regulation of commercial cannabis activity in California. This law requires anyone engaged in commercial cannabis activity to be licensed, and allows local governments to control what activities are permitted in their jurisdiction."

California Marijuana Laws - FindLaw

"Existing law prescribes requirements for a licensing authority to issue a license, including submission of an application and payment of a fee. This bill would require a person to demonstrate 3 years of continuous California residency prior to the date of application before being issued a license under either AUMA or MCRSA."

From going online, I couldn’t find any nearby “legal” dispensary and would have to take a bit of a drive to go anywhere to find legal MJ, regardless of any tax, if I wanted.

Bill Text - AB-259 Medical cannabis and nonmedical marijuana: California residency requirement for licensing.

Roadvirus said:

Assholes suffering from a severe case of White Guilt?

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There are a lot of black people living in Evanston. The reparation might be like a $10 check per year.

ChezC3 said:

Completely asinine.

So, let's talk about Evanston, since it's practically right in my back yard.

The ghetto of the North Shore...

Evanston is a town that in one area police are pulling down your pants looking for crack rock and in another, home owners are throwing parties and having valet service at their private residences.

Home to Northwestern University

Where they churn out limousine liberals by the boatload all the while training them to be the problem their bleeding hearts can't stand.

Me and the wife have been looking at a home in the North Shore, maybe Wilmette, really liking Highland Park (east of St. John's Ave), maybe even go a little further into Lake Forest.

But Evanston?

Nevah.

and that was before this absurdity they want to engage in.

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I'm 5 blocks from the border of Evanston in Rogers Park. Evanston is lovely. Opulent turn of the century homes. A wide variety of eateries, eclectic shopping. Northwestern U, Evanston is indeed within the radius for my next condo.

HenryChinaski said:

I'm 5 blocks from the border of Evanston in Rogers Park. Evanston is lovely. Opulent turn of the century homes. A wide variety of eateries, eclectic shopping. Northwestern U, Evanston is indeed within the radius for my next condo.

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Anywhere is lovely compared to Rogers Park....:lol: :2razz:

Loyola Beach is nice though...or it was 6-7 years ago last time I was there.

Like I said, there are hoity areas, but there are straight gh-e-e-e-t-t-o-s there as well. Not as many bad areas as there once was, but still...

ChezC3 said:

Anywhere is lovely compared to Rogers Park....:lol: :2razz:

Loyola Beach is nice though...or it was 6-7 years ago last time I was there.

Like I said, there are hoity areas, but there are straight gh-e-e-e-t-t-o-s there as well. Not as many bad areas as there once was, but still...

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Rogers park is great. It's one of, if not the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city and it's managed to keep gentrification at bay.

HenryChinaski said:

Rogers park is great. It's one of, if not the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city and it's managed to keep gentrification at bay.

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Meh...I never found it to be anything special...and while it doesn't quite have the stigma of Uptown, it still isn't considered a very good neighborhood. BTW, Albany Park is the most culturally diverse, in the city and one of the most in the country.

I'll consider "at bay" to be a relative term. I know certain parts that are quite gentrified, not that there is anything wrong with it, though I suppose I understand some people's viewpoint....can't have white people moving in and cleaning up every neighborhood...