Being a lower-wage earner suddenly doesn’t seem so bad
23 April 2009
… being plunged into poverty won’t be so much of a bump.
As Neil said, holy cow, the UK is pretty much bankrupt.
(Well, I’m the one who’s saying holy cow, Neil has this grim schadenfreude thing going.)
Here’s a radical way to help with the books — let’s legalise, regulate, and tax drugs! If the government can ensure a clean, affordable, and transparent supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, speed, ecstasy, and whatever else, they can distribute to authorised vendors (say a chemist) and duty could be paid on it. Illegal dealers would still exist but most users would be able to get a quality product legally. There would be less of a resource strain in terms of emergency services and perhaps long-term care. The police wouldn’t have to spend so much time on the users. And jails! The issues of overcrowding in prisons would be significantly reduced.
Win-win all round, I’d say. Too bad the political will to do something like this is about as firm as soup.
(Diesel prices went up this morning. The duty is only meant to increase in September. Hmph.)
(As long as we go teetotal, stop driving, and keep our jobs, we’ll be just fine…)
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