Love it or hate it, recreational cannabis is raking in serious cash for Montana's tax coffers. Here's where the nearly $50 million in 2022 tax revenue gets spent.
It seems appropriate to be writing this article the same week in history that Prohibition was repealed. An estimated $37 million in tax revenue has been generated so far this year.
Rep. Bill Mercer (R-Billings) got into "the nitty gritty" details of what a tax rebate could look like on Monday morning. He says the lawmakers who are proposing the tax rebates have modeled the legislation off of what has already been done in the state of Georgia.
Bozeman is growing. Billings is growing. Missoula is growing. Kalispell is growing. We get it. But why are city budgets growing even more astronomically? Our chat with Frontier Institute CEO Kendall Cotton.
We spoke with Matthew Monforton, a Bozeman attorney and former state legislator who is leading the effort in support of CI-121. He is asking for Montanans across the state to help gather signatures.
"Joe Biden wants to give the IRS more power to spy on Americans," Barrasso said. "That's what he's asking for. Just listen to the testimony of his Secretary of Treasury who comes to congress and says she wants to look into the checking accounts, banking accounts of anybody with deposits or withdrawals $600. Republicans are committed to stopping this."
The Arkansas Democrat, who talked about working alongside her friend Max Baucus (former Democrat Senator from Montana), also worked alongside Joe Biden. And now she is speaking out against Biden's tax plan.