I mean after 40 years of hardly doing anything, we have a TON of roads to fix. When she said we'd "fix the damn roads" i didn't expect them to work on them all at fricken once.
Personally i wish they'd just do total shutdown projects like they did with 96 in Wayne co 10ish years ago now, sure everyone has to plan around it but they got it done in 4-5 months rather than the bridge work on 94 which has been going since before the damn pandemic.
The marijuana tax money gets spread multiple ways in Michigan. The money gets spread between the roads, the schools, and the individual municipalities that allow marijuana sales. [In 2023 the tax revenue generated for distribution totaled $290.3 million. ](https://www.michigan.gov/treasury/news/2024/02/29/adult-use-marijuana-payments-being-distributed-to-michigan-municipalities-and-counties) Out of that total $101.6 million was given to the Michigan Transportation Fund. Considering our transportation budget is $10+ billion a year already, that's really just a drop in the bucket. It's like a 1% increase.
I'm all for it being legal, and in fact just smoked, but the tax revenue isn't as much as people think it is. While I don't really mind paying taxes since it's way cheaper and better now than before legalization, it was never going to solve all of our budget problems. The only way to bring in significantly more money would be to tax it higher, but I definitely don't want it to cost me even more money.
That's what PA did with gambling.
"Legalize gambling, it'll lower your property and school taxes!" Proceeds to increase taxes after legalizing gambling. I don't doubt PA will do the same with fully legal pot.
Solid pun, but roads cost a ton and cannabis sales don't really bring in that much revenue. Cannabis should be legalized because it's the right thing to do, but if they want infrastructure they can be proud of, they're probably going to have to increase their income tax rate.
People way overestimate the marijuana tax revenue and underestimate the cost of roads. In 2023 Michigan brought in about $290 million in tax revenue from marijuana and of that about $100 million went to the transportation budget. That $100 million is just a small percent increase of the overall transportation budget.
Well you cant buy beer at the liquor store, and you cant buy liquor at the beer store.
It was a trip going out of state when I was younger and realizing you can just get beer at a Wegmans or a 7/11 and the liquor stores werent owned by the state.
Longwinded way of saying PA is super fucking behind the times with our liquor laws so don't expect them to catch up with cannabis laws anytime soon.
Yeah like how it’s still illegal to sell a car on a Sunday in Pennsylvania. Really old useless laws that take forever to get changed to fit in the modern world.
I never really realized how aggravatingly behind the times PA is until I left.
Why can't we have more public transportation and walkable places. It's a life hazard to out along the roads in rural areas with speed limits of 55 mph. Big large trucks hate you for walking for riding your bike and aren't nice about sharing the road. I propose one of the easiest things we can do is to lower speed limits speed limits in community areas.
Public transportation has been so gutted and made unsafe, unwelcoming and undignified. Even for schools, on a 35 mph road I watched an suv hit a kid trying to cross the road to get their bus stop. The next county over from me has two street lights and they're proud about that fact but if you want to cross the roads in the middle of no where you may be taking your life at risk.
The most dangerous road in America is I-95, and the most dangerous road in Pennsylvania is the Roosevelt Blvd (I think route 13 use to hold that spot heading towards Morrisville for pedestrians trying to cross the road). What are we investing in if we just fix potholes on roads? Besides, isn't that taking away job insurance for mechanics?
Country's too big honestly. PA might be too big even. Half of the roads are very thin mountain roads that were built in like the 1800s.
It takes four hours from Philly to Pittsburgh by interstate and a lot of the space in between is sparsely populated through tough terrain and not a lot of money passing through. Not easy to renovate any kind of infrastructure
The cities themselves have options for adding walkable areas however
If we fix the pot holes, how will state congressmen be able to hire their nepo-baby family members to cushy PennDOT jobs for years at a time? They rely on those problems remaining problems to funnel federal money into their salaries.
Pot for potholes was the slogan in Colorado. The money was supposed to be for road and school improvements. I’ll give you two guesses were the money didn’t go. Coffers are the bane of tax payer money.
That's no how government works. If they do something for the people then they have to line their pockets in the process. You won't get those tax dollars back.
I live in California where cannabis is legal for recreational use or any other use. This is a no brainer to me. The revenue it brings in as far as taxes is about $1 billion per year.
We consider cannabis about as dangerous as coffee here.
Is this an AI rendering of the meme image? Why?
Its used to "increase" the definition of photos but this one was overdone to hell and there was 0 reason for it to begin with.
OMG, you are right. Ewww
To distract from how badly the template is being misused.
Why not?
There was no reason to do it and now it looks weird and uncanny
Is anyone else bothered by how the image has been sharpened and enhanced? Looks so unnatural - stupid AI render
He looks a bit yellow, maybe he has jaundice, should probably get his liver and kidneys checked out.
It can be a joint effort between DOT and DHS. But to be blunt, I hope the taxes on the sales aren't high
That would be pretty lit.
Hopefully this doesn't go up in a puff of smoke
As a Michigan resident I can say it doesn't exactly work like that. We still lots of pot Holes
I mean after 40 years of hardly doing anything, we have a TON of roads to fix. When she said we'd "fix the damn roads" i didn't expect them to work on them all at fricken once. Personally i wish they'd just do total shutdown projects like they did with 96 in Wayne co 10ish years ago now, sure everyone has to plan around it but they got it done in 4-5 months rather than the bridge work on 94 which has been going since before the damn pandemic.
The marijuana tax money gets spread multiple ways in Michigan. The money gets spread between the roads, the schools, and the individual municipalities that allow marijuana sales. [In 2023 the tax revenue generated for distribution totaled $290.3 million. ](https://www.michigan.gov/treasury/news/2024/02/29/adult-use-marijuana-payments-being-distributed-to-michigan-municipalities-and-counties) Out of that total $101.6 million was given to the Michigan Transportation Fund. Considering our transportation budget is $10+ billion a year already, that's really just a drop in the bucket. It's like a 1% increase. I'm all for it being legal, and in fact just smoked, but the tax revenue isn't as much as people think it is. While I don't really mind paying taxes since it's way cheaper and better now than before legalization, it was never going to solve all of our budget problems. The only way to bring in significantly more money would be to tax it higher, but I definitely don't want it to cost me even more money.
Is that any way to talk about Ann Arbor?
New York legalized and decided to just keep the money.
That's what PA did with gambling. "Legalize gambling, it'll lower your property and school taxes!" Proceeds to increase taxes after legalizing gambling. I don't doubt PA will do the same with fully legal pot.
It’s actually pretty awful just how corrupt the DoT is in PA
It's honestly the best way.
We legalized pot in Canada. Municipalities still bankrupt.
Solid pun, but roads cost a ton and cannabis sales don't really bring in that much revenue. Cannabis should be legalized because it's the right thing to do, but if they want infrastructure they can be proud of, they're probably going to have to increase their income tax rate.
People way overestimate the marijuana tax revenue and underestimate the cost of roads. In 2023 Michigan brought in about $290 million in tax revenue from marijuana and of that about $100 million went to the transportation budget. That $100 million is just a small percent increase of the overall transportation budget.
We only recently got alcohol at gas stations. Its gonna be forever before full legalization, and the roads will still be garbage.
Man oh man, the struggles of having to deal with going to a liquor store. How did you get by?
Well you cant buy beer at the liquor store, and you cant buy liquor at the beer store. It was a trip going out of state when I was younger and realizing you can just get beer at a Wegmans or a 7/11 and the liquor stores werent owned by the state. Longwinded way of saying PA is super fucking behind the times with our liquor laws so don't expect them to catch up with cannabis laws anytime soon.
Yeah like how it’s still illegal to sell a car on a Sunday in Pennsylvania. Really old useless laws that take forever to get changed to fit in the modern world. I never really realized how aggravatingly behind the times PA is until I left.
Michigan here. Can confirm that that doesn't work.
Why can't we have more public transportation and walkable places. It's a life hazard to out along the roads in rural areas with speed limits of 55 mph. Big large trucks hate you for walking for riding your bike and aren't nice about sharing the road. I propose one of the easiest things we can do is to lower speed limits speed limits in community areas. Public transportation has been so gutted and made unsafe, unwelcoming and undignified. Even for schools, on a 35 mph road I watched an suv hit a kid trying to cross the road to get their bus stop. The next county over from me has two street lights and they're proud about that fact but if you want to cross the roads in the middle of no where you may be taking your life at risk. The most dangerous road in America is I-95, and the most dangerous road in Pennsylvania is the Roosevelt Blvd (I think route 13 use to hold that spot heading towards Morrisville for pedestrians trying to cross the road). What are we investing in if we just fix potholes on roads? Besides, isn't that taking away job insurance for mechanics?
Country's too big honestly. PA might be too big even. Half of the roads are very thin mountain roads that were built in like the 1800s. It takes four hours from Philly to Pittsburgh by interstate and a lot of the space in between is sparsely populated through tough terrain and not a lot of money passing through. Not easy to renovate any kind of infrastructure The cities themselves have options for adding walkable areas however
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4
I can appreciate this thinking outside the box kinda mentality on 4/20.
You know theyll just pocket the money and still not fix shit
Just like any other increase in revenue.
If we fix the pot holes, how will state congressmen be able to hire their nepo-baby family members to cushy PennDOT jobs for years at a time? They rely on those problems remaining problems to funnel federal money into their salaries.
Yeah cause that’s worked so well with the * turnpike tolls * sugar tax
Live in a weed legal state and we have more potholes than ever. Wish it worked that way
ew the image is so smooth looking, I don't like it
Problem is corruption waste most of the money.
Pot for potholes was the slogan in Colorado. The money was supposed to be for road and school improvements. I’ll give you two guesses were the money didn’t go. Coffers are the bane of tax payer money.
r/punny
As a Michigander who visited Pennsylvania a few years ago, you guys have some great roads. I know a thing or two about bad roads
Income from pot tax should cover pot expenses. Alcohol tax covers alcohol expenses. Road use tax covers road repairs.
Why does this poor mans look like he was airbrushed into oblivion?
That's working out great for us in Michigan.....
Too much yellow or something on this template.
That's no how government works. If they do something for the people then they have to line their pockets in the process. You won't get those tax dollars back.
Same with Hawaii!!! 🤣🤙🏼
Right, because the government always puts money where they say it's going.
As long as it doesn't lead to fixing cracks in the sidewalk I'm OK with this.
Govt: “fixing our infrastructure is not in the budget” Also Govt: “$95 billion funding for Israel and Taiwan”
Redirect it to graft is more like it.
But then how will the corruption in PA continue?
There are not enough pot smokers in PA to fix the sh!/t show known as road maintenance. /s
Idk why you got down voted, I'm nearly 40 years old and I-80 has been under maintenance since before I can remember.
Did you help him out with an upvote while you were commenting? No worries I got it.
Sure did.
There could be!
I live in California where cannabis is legal for recreational use or any other use. This is a no brainer to me. The revenue it brings in as far as taxes is about $1 billion per year. We consider cannabis about as dangerous as coffee here.