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Originally posted by retrograde
Legalize it, tax it, and improve education or healthcare with all the money you'll make from both the tax and the millions saved on prison construction.
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My problem with that is the assumption that our lack of performance in these areas is due to a lack of funding. Between just porkbarrelling and what it takes to run the IRS, 1/3 of our tax money is already spent. Then consider all the bullshit programs, bureaucracies, and departments that exist with no reason to exist.
Case in point, the newly formed Department of Homeland Security. All they need to do is merge the FBI and CIA into once department, and divide it into small departments based on internal or extrenal intelligence and have regular communication flow and unified management. Poof, DHS is obsolete and the redundant bureaucrats can be cut out to produce a leaner and more efficienet intelligence and security department. Heck, if you made this department related to the military, that would increase communication, cooperative efforts, military intelligence and reduce even more redunancies to make an even leaner department.
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