That’s exactly my point. You don’t recall being told by the gov which industry to go into, doesn’t work like that. Smart, hungry, motivated guys like you go into industries that have good economics. If tax incentives by the gov over-flatter the economics of an industry like real estate investing, then you might choose that industry and not realize. Now you get a boner every time someone says tax loss carryforward because you think it’s the norm. It’s not the norm, it’s just a gov policy.
lol full agreement with malee. no idea why we coddle these opiod addicts. we need to treat them like crack users. lock these lowlives up
but to be fair, i feel like, if you are profitable for the country, you should have more freedom to do as you please.
In the 1980s, Congress passed a series of laws that aimed to counter the widespread use of crack cocaine with tougher sentencing guidelines.
Three decades later, lawmakers are once again considering legislation aimed at curbing a drug crisis: opioid abuse. This time, the emphasis is on funding research into a public-health crisis and enabling states to deal with its consequences.
Lawmakers and experts haven’t reached a consensus on why the federal government’s response to opioids is so different from the crack epidemic that preceded it. Nor has the dynamic entirely changed on Capitol Hill. Although there is nearly universal support for a robust response to opioid abuse, a bipartisan push to revise the sentencing guidelines set during the crack era faces a more uncertain legislative future.
In 2016, white victims made up almost 80% of the deaths from opioid overdoses, with black victims comprising 10% of deaths and Hispanic victims 8%, according to the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In contrast, in 2000, 84% of crack cocaine offenders were black, compared with 6% white, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan, independent agency created by Congress to reduce sentencing disparities.
Recent studies have suggested that cocaine remains a proportionate problem among black users, as opioids is among white users. Cocaine-related overdose deaths among black men and women were on par with heroin and prescription opioid-related deaths among white men and women between 2000 and 2015, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
