By: Ryan McMaken Through November of 2017, the State of Colorado collected more than $226 million in revenues from cannabis taxes, licenses, and fees. That’s a lot for a state government with total discretionary spending of about $10 billion. This doesn’t count tax revenues produced by industries that serve cannabis industries — but aren’t cannabis businesses per se. […]
Archives for January 2018
6 random things for Friday (Tim Hortons, marijuana, Ron Paul on Iran)
News Story of the Day: it isn’t just a single Tim Hortons location in Ontario that is implementing new policies to counteract the minimum wage hike. Six more Ontario stores have decided to install unpaid breaks and slash medical benefits. From CBC: Employees at six more Tim Hortons franchises have revealed to CBC Toronto they’re […]
Ron Paul: Liberty will prevail in 2018!
By: Ron Paul Happy New Year! We always approach a new year with anticipation, hope, and also some worries. Last year was one of the strangest political years I have seen in some time. A new Republican president spent his first year pursuing more or less the same foreign policy as his Democratic predecessor and […]
CNN returns to its 2017 ways – Russia, Russia, Russia! (video)
When the Counterfeit News Network isn’t spending its time lighting up marijuana masks, comparing penis sizes, and reporting fake news, the troubled network resorts to its 2017 ways: Russia! That’s right. Despite entering a new year and the Trump-Russia collusion story pretty much being a stretch, CNN is putting all of its eggs on the […]
IT BEGINS: Ontario Tim Hortons restaurant slashes benefits amid higher minimum wage
In the province of Ontario, the minimum wage went up to $14 as of January 1, 2018. It is scheduled to increase to $15 next year. Despite the many warnings from various business associations and economists, Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals went ahead anyway in a desperate act for some votes ahead of the […]