Initiative 42 "Amending the Hemp and Cannabis Initiative"

[Jake]

The Law as it stands now.

Initiative 42 "Amending the Hemp and Cannabis Initiative"

Initiative 22: "The Hemp and Cannabis Initiative" shall be amended as follows:

Section 7, clause (a) shall be modified to read:

Marijuana cigarettes sold in the Southeast region after June 1, 2005 shall be subject to an excise tax of 50 cents per cigarette.

Section 7, clause (b) shall be modified to read:

Packaged loose marijuana sold in the Southeast region after June 1, 2005 shall be subject to an excise tax of $25.00 per kilogram.

The following will be added to Section 3

(f) The Commission shall place the program fund defined in section 2(c) of the Excise Tax Administration Initiative at the disposal of the Adjutant General to pay for the activitities of the Southeast Millitia.

Subsection (e) of Section 3 of the Southeastern Hemp and Cannibis Initiative shall be replaced with:

(e) The Commission shall not establish an education fund as defined in section 2(b) of the Excise Tax Administration Initiative.


changes in bold


-Jake

[Sam Spade]

I agree with the changes to the Hemp and Cannabis Initiative and would sign those.

I think the changes to the Excise Tax Administration are out of line and will not sign those.

Get rid of that, and you'll get my signature.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No comment on the tax rate change.  I have opinions as to the levels excise tax rates should be set to, but absent any data on how revenues would be affected and how much effort people would undertake to avoid the tax at various levels, I can't really apply those principles.

However, I do stridently object to the proposed changes to the Excise Tax Adminsitration Initiative.  Not only would it gut anti-drinking, anti-smoking, and anti-drug funding, it also guts driver education programs.  Now if you want to cut the education fund from just the Hemp and Canabis Initiative here is some language that would do it.

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That would cause the 5% currently allocated to the education fund to automatically go to the program fund.

Also instead of your proposed section 7(e), if you want the money to go to militia operations, add the following section 3(f) instead:

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As written, you would be denying the Southeast Hemp and Cannabis Commission access to the funds needed to administer or enforce the law, since you would be requiring the whole of the tax to go to the militia.  I wrote the Excise Tax Administration Initiative so that the administrative and enforcement operations would be self-paid out of the tax so that we wouldn't have to worry about constantly pssing budgets, but set limits on how much could go there.

[Sam Spade]

I agree with Ernest here.  I just couldn't put it as succinctly.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

One other problem, we already have an Initiative 41, the Regional Authority Judicial Amendment.

[Jake]

Okay thanks Ernest, I'll be adjusting it.

[Jake]

One other problem, we already have an Initiative 41, the Regional Authority Judicial Amendment.

Bah, I'll get to that to

[Sam Spade]

Good changes.

X Sam Spade

[jokerman]

X Cosmo Kramer

[Jake]

BUMP, try for two more signatures here.

[Sam Spade]

BUMP, try for two more signatures here.

You've got Cosmo Kramer and me.  I though you only need one more sig.

[Jake]

Thought it was five, anyway, more support over here.

[Sam Spade]

http://ernestcline.home.mindspring.com/Southeast/constitution.html

Article 2, Clause 1

[Jake]

Bah, who cares what that thing says

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You could just go ahead and sign it yourself.  The constitution doesn't say that it a proposer can't sign his own initiative proposal.

[Jake]

X Jake

[Jake]

BUMP, this is up for a vote soon

[Sam Spade]

My signature still counts, obviously.