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Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners

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36 points hhs | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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dylan604 ◴[06 Nov 24 22:52 UTC] No.42070820[source]▶
I'm always surprised at how "little" the use of the taxes for marijuana have made an impact. Either it's being grossly managed, or there's just not as much sales from mary jane as I would have expected.
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aliasxneo ◴[06 Nov 24 23:00 UTC] No.42070907[source]▶
As an Oregonian, I wish I could see the benefits of it locally. We have at least a half dozen weed shops in my town, vastly outnumbering any other category of business, and yet my kids literally couldn't go to school one day last week because the district "doesn't have enough money to staff the buildings."

I know it's a bit of an unfair complaint, but these are the things I start wondering about when we can't even keep our schools open. Where is the money going?

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1. r14c ◴[06 Nov 24 23:10 UTC] No.42071013[source]▶
You can look up the state budget here: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/lfo/Pages/Publications.asp...

Your local municipality probably has some kind of budget transparency thing that you can look at and by comparing YoY expenditures you should be able to sus out where the money is going and where its coming from. Would be cool to have some kind of queryable dataset for this process tho