Originally Posted by danielpalos

From a, purely public policy perspective, would taxes need to be raised if we can generate revenue from well regulated commerce among the several states that is also taxed, as a form of official weight and measure of wellness of regulation of that commerce?

I am not advocating we all become drug users, but only that we comply with the document our Founding Fathers took such great care to craft, in a previous age; before our modern understanding of economics was developed. Monies generated from the sale of those products could be used to defray public sector costs, and potentially, avoid direct and invasive tax increases.

What is the argument in favor of raising taxes, merely for the sake of raising taxes, when we have not exhausted all of the revenue generating avenues available to our republic and specifically enumerated in our Constitution?