Dear Editor:
When the marijuana laws came up for vote by the people, I thought the tax monies were to go toward law enforcement and rehabilitation. I always assumed taxes were to benefit everyone, not a select few.
Now it seems the marijuana tax went to the general fund.
Years ago, some businesses used large cities as easy targets for income from goods and services. A kind of captive market.
Co-ops were started to provide goods and services for rural and small towns. There is a large difference, in an example of electricity, the distance in cities is forty to fifty feet, in rural areas it can be five to fifteen miles between homes or business. Some of those sites are abandoned homesteads with a well for stock water used, maybe a few months a year. An example of high profit, one or two power poles replaced would cost more than the return.
If the marijuana tax is to maintain roads, I would think it should be all counties, not just the ones with the most people and crime. Rural areas need roads for emergency vehicles and repair personnel just as much as cities.
Lauris Byxbe
Pompeys Pillar
