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.
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:
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.
