News (Media Awareness Project) - CN QU: PUB LTE: Tax Marijuana, Pay For Health |
| Title: | CN QU: PUB LTE: Tax Marijuana, Pay For Health |
| Published On: | 2004-09-17 |
| Source: | Montreal Gazette (CN QU) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-17 23:58:59 |
TAX MARIJUANA, PAY FOR HEALTH
The premiers and the federal health minister have been all over the TV
and the papers talking about what they can do to save health care.
Yet no one - not the media, none of the premiers, none of the federal
ministers - will mention the obvious: If they would just legalize,
regulate and tax marijuana, they would have upward of $4 billion every
year to put into health care.
They have no intention of fixing health care. What they intend to do
is raise taxes, cut other services, and privatize many services.
That is not my kind of Canada.
Russell Barth,
Ottawa
The premiers and the federal health minister have been all over the TV
and the papers talking about what they can do to save health care.
Yet no one - not the media, none of the premiers, none of the federal
ministers - will mention the obvious: If they would just legalize,
regulate and tax marijuana, they would have upward of $4 billion every
year to put into health care.
They have no intention of fixing health care. What they intend to do
is raise taxes, cut other services, and privatize many services.
That is not my kind of Canada.
Russell Barth,
Ottawa
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