| Well, the customer would pay for their legal pot or prostitute, but the government agencies created to regulate these industries would still be funded with citizen's tax dollars. Law enforcement officials would not simply forget about drug use and prostiution, either - they'd just have a new set of rules and rule breakers, and your taxes would still be paying for them to do their *new* jobs. So the customer is paying his sales tax and you're paying your income tax to provide him that product via a government-regulated program. |