Ron DeSantis

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So you will have more black market marijuana in Florida if this passes.

There's no question.

And then they're running commercials, the company that's funding all this.

There's gonna be a windfall for education, funding for cops, and everything like that.

There's nothing in the text of the amendment that allocates any money to education.

Where have we heard this before?

Before, but here's the thing: Colorado, they did tax it.

I think they made some money for a short while.

They don't make any money anymore off of it.

A lot of their agencies had been planning on the money and it hasn't come in.

So this is not something that will be beneficial fiscally.

And also with Florida, we don't need it.

We have a massive budget surplus.

Just since I became governor, all the debt in Florida's history, we've paid off 36%.

We have the

Lowest per capita debt in the country, second lowest per capita state taxes.

Our budget this year actually spent less than last year's budget.

So we have the smallest state government per capita in the country in terms of employees.

So we don't need weed money.

I don't think it would be there in the medium term, maybe a little bit in the short term, and it'd be a relatively small amount.

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