I was all over the economic benefits of gay marriage more than a year ago. Economic problems? Let’s cater to groups we’ve ignored in the past: open a casino, sell booze on sundays, let gay people get married. Heck, legalize assault weapons– sales will go up, prices will go down. The casino thing is tricky, because a lot of the money spent in casinos is just sucked away unproductively, while a wedding really does benefit the economy more.
Legalizing pot would probably be the biggest benefit to the economy: we’d save a bundle on housing nonviolent drug offenders, we’d get huge tax revenues on marijuana sales, and new businesses would thrive, from hydroponic garden centers to delivery services. Vandalism and casual or impulse crimes would probably go down, too, because a lot of folks who would otherwise be out breaking things would be staying home watching “Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle” instead. Same with prostitution, man. Sin’s big business, as anyone who’s studied the Prohibition era of American history knows.
If you’re opposed to legal prostitution, dope, and gay marriage, then you’re opposed to personal responsibility, free enterprise, a strong economy and a small government. Stuff that in your conservative pipe and smoke it.
Secretly Ironic 