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View Poll Results: Which economic stimulus would you support?
Modernize the patent system. 6 60.00%
Legalize it! 9 90.00%
Other: explain 2 20.00%
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Old 10-13-2012, 05:03 PM   #1
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I've heard (TV) that alcohol prohibition was ended partly because it was an obvious failure, but also because the governments at the time desperately needed the revenue.

Ibby, you seem really in character in that post. Great acting...
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Old 10-13-2012, 09:51 PM   #2
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Ibby, you seem really in character in that post. Great acting...
i mean like dude like i dont want like i dont want you to think, man, that like i'm that, that, that kinda stoner man, i dont like, uh, i dont talk like that man, i dont know what you mean dude, uh, like, its all greek to me man
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Old 10-14-2012, 08:42 AM   #3
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I've heard (TV) that alcohol prohibition was ended partly because it was an obvious failure, but also because the governments at the time desperately needed the revenue.
Yes, a huge chunk of federal revenue came from alcohol taxes, so in order to get Prohibition passed first they had to create the income tax. Then the depression killed much of the projected revenue, so they needed both taxes.
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