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Originally Posted by Kaveh
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Booze benefits the state? Domestic violence, road accidents, and obesity?
I strongly disagree.
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Just put your personal opinions on the good or bad of these things aside for a moment.
Tax revenue. And some of those bad things booze and weed causes will increase incarceration down the road, which also benefits the state as prisoners often provide slave labor. There may be for-profit prisons involved later, too.
Plus, the carceral system helps advance the cause of white supremacy, which the state supports. The people who work for the state may not be white supremacists, obviously, or even the politicians, but the whole thing writ large enforces white power. Can't say if that happened naturally or deliberately.
There's all the ancillary benefits of this, too. Lawyers getting their payouts for being prosecutors or defenders, judges, cops, clerks at city hall... everything is connected. The health issues it causes generate shitloads of revenue in doctor's offices and hospitals everywhere.
I can't say if all of the obesity and alcoholism costs more than it brings in, there's no balance sheet for that kind of stuff.
Churches don't cause that kind of revenue. Vices do.