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There has been talk for decades about starting a national lottery in the United States. The focus of this discussion, more often than not, centers around directing this money to pay off the national debt.
Given the
success of the multi-state
MEGA MILLIONS and
POWER BALL lotteries, and the
failings of the
Bush/Cheyney fiscal policy, it is a subject that continues to crop up.
I have a proposal. Double federal tax on tobacco and alcohol; directing funds to eliminate the debt. What to do with that money once the debt has been paid will be the subject of a future proposal.
The United States government grows some of the best marijuana you will find in the world. Believe me, I know. It's time we bring some sanity to our national drug policy and tap into those funds at the same time.
Whichever side of the marijuana legalization debate you're on there's plenty of ammunition available. I don't think, though, that a proposal like this has been offered before.
To talk about decreasing the size of the government, to raise objections about increasing the size of the bureaucracy is wasted breath. Or words best left unwritten. The bottom line is that the United States government is too big and will continue getting bigger.
Instead of instituting a national lottery, we should put the government in the restaurant business. There are enough agencies dealing with food that it shouldn't be too much of a challenge. They're doing an inadequate, inefficient job now. What better than to re-engineer the whole mess? Better yet, put their bureaucratic ass to the fire. If the business doesn't generate a profit they're out on the street, resume in hand.
Putting the government "in business" isn't a novel idea. The U.S. Government Bookstore is well established. And the Department of Education is set up largely as a collections agency pursuing defaulted student loans. {More bloggables for a future time.} All this sets up a government operated restaurant as a real goldmine.
Eating at
USAppetites will be like no other from sea to shining sea. When you arrive you'll have a ticket punched; at the same time as you hand over your keys to a parking attendant.
There will be a childcare center. As well as play areas; for children and for adults.
USAppetites will have a food menu with offerings from every region of the nation. And there will be the best of the best marijuana and hashish from around the world. What it will not have is alcohol.
There will not be anyone under the age of 18 able to purchase or partake. Nor will any children be exposed. There will be an area of the facility dedicated to those who wish to envibe. Each time the person makes a purchase they will have their ticket punched. When they buy food their ticket will be punched.
A person will not be able to have the keys to their car returned to them until a set amount of time has passed since they last smoked. Everyone in the party will have stopped smoking for that amount of time before the keys will be returned.
The more a person smokes - that's any person in your party -
the longer you'll have to wait to have car keys returned. Which brings to front the question, do you think people will be at eating at
USAppetites?
Keep in mind, the citizenry is already paying the government to grow marijuana. We just don't get to smoke it.
Given the menu, smoking marijuana would not be required to eat at
USAppetites. The closed environment of the smoking area, with it's filtered air, would ensure that there would be no exposure to those in the restaurant who are not puffing. Those patrons would still receive a ticket upon arrival and have access to the adult play area. Think,
game arcade on
steroids; with the newest, highest tech games and the best blasts from the past.
Being a restaurant, of course, you would not have to smoke to enjoy the selections of marijuana and hashish at
USAppetites. There would be healthier options; an entire section of the menu fortified with buzzables. That would also be taken into account in terms of ticket punching and time required before car keys are returned.
USAppetites would have regional locations throughout the country. Every state would have at least one facility - a size that makes the Mall of America look like a modest start-up -
in addition to the one located in the state capital city. That will make for BIG proceeds from Little Rhodie!
Given the name, and the nation's appetite for oil, those who
smoke and eat at the restaurant would also be able to buy gasoline before leaving. The cost of the petroleum products would be sold at a rate including only 50% of federal taxes.
Once
USAppetites opens random sobriety checks would become a common site on highways throughout the nation; testing for a broad range of intoxicants. Caught once driving under the influence you would face stiff penalties include confiscation of your vehicle for one year.
The days of people driving with multiple DUI convictions would be over. Kill someone when you're driving under the influence, you face the death penalty. That would be in a country where the penalty is carried out expediently.
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