they have to pay a big fee sometimes, those banks are hours from where the busines is so they drive around with tens of thousands of dollars in their glove box sometimes. what the safe banking act woul do, it would not solve all the problems, but it would make it easier for banks around th united states to offer bot credit and debit services to banks or to cannabis services, but also give small business loans. you have a lot of smal business owners out there righ now, who have to either foot the entire bill for their ne company on their own, wher they have to go in search of venture capital. that disproportionately impact people of color, who traditionally do not have as much access to things like venture capital. the safe banking at would make that easier, even though i would not solve all th problems what you mention with taxes and that was a tax code that was passed in the 19 80s, an it was intended to keep drug
would not solve all th problems what you mention with taxes and that was a tax code that was passed in the 19 80s, an it was intended to keep drug cartels, or drug sellers fro writing their business expense off that they were selling cocaine or heroin. however, because cannabis is a schedule one drug, it also applies to cannabis. so you have dispensaries tha are functioning with illegal markets in places like washington state, or california, that can t write off their payroll expenses, were these things that they purchased for their dispensary so they are paying incredibl high taxes that is actually having really big impact on the cannabis industry. a lot of them are losing money still, even though it lot of people are buying marijuana. every other business ca write off their expenses, just not cannabis businesses. a congress person pointed ou at that summit today that wa put on by the cannabis industry, the hypocrisy, the patchwork o different laws across th country. sitting in
you will be safer there. joining me now, new york cit police commissioner keyshawn sewell commissioner sewell, thank you very much for coming to th sunday show. let s talk about crime in th big apple. the latest statistics out in december has the numbers dow significantly. talk to me about that change we are in a very, first o all thank you so much fo having me jonathan we are in a very different place in new york city than we were in the last year. we for this administration cam in, we were at a 15-year hig for. shootings we had homicides, want to say homicide to, muc but they were very concerning. what we recognize is that ther was a little bit of violence happening in the city. so it put together a whole government approach to address the violence that was happenin on our streets and right now shootings ar down in homicides are down so we recognize where th problems were and we put forth a plan to address it we have some of the crime
and it s - now, it costs, the post office and the driver s license burea make money on this we didn t give it away so are we setting in an executive order around givin people voting cards could be a way of dealing with th problems of voter suppression? i think president biden issued an executive order that would empower every post office, you have a camera already. and every neighborhood has a post office. and you just go and you get voter card for free. but you re voter card is already righty cards where you go to the bank it is also multi use. it is, everybody need identification i love it
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