arms shall nod be infringed, but no bullets in the gun, dana, you know what? i have this understanding i was way out of whack and i thought that bullets were included in that constitutional right, dana? i didn t know we were talking about pistol whipping tonight. to your point, all of the new laws being proposed and some are sin taxes, that s what they are, a government version of sin tax, nothing would have done to prevent massacres like this or the newtown massacre either. that s the thing, adam lanza changed magazines multiple times and we ve had lawmakers kind of admit that shall the former attorney general blumenthal saying it wouldn t have prevented newtown. if it would not have prevented newtown, why are we passing laws that would not prevent it. sean: leslie, can you name one proposal that s out there today by the left, by
gambling is potentially worse than getting addicted to marijuana. so i don t smoke pot, but they legalized it. why not take advantage of the business opportunity of this. you bring up the business opportunity. so we reached out to visit seattle, a private nonprofit. they initially said they would be open to this kind thing, but now they re saying i have no plans, this is the president of visit seattle, i have no plans to market tourism dollars towards it. if things become more solid in terms of how the federal government views it in the future, that could change. but not changing anything we re doing now. sort of to dean s point, supporters say it could raise as much as $500 million for the state. a figure many analysts say is overstated. but does it matter? if you re bringing money in to the state, does it matter where the money comes from? we allow we get funding from the lottery, we get funding in putting certain taxes on what they call sin taxes.
hands. keep in mind, this is not a situation where the two parties are miles apart. we re in rough agreement about how much spending can be cut responsibly as a first step towards reducing our deficit. we agree on a process where the next step is a debate in the coming months on tax reform and entitlement reform, and i am willing and ready to have that debate. if we need to put in place an enforcement mechanism to hold us accountable for making the reforms, i will support that too if it s done in a smart and balanced way. so there are plenty of ways out of this mess. but we are almost out of time. i want to bring in cnn s joe johns to tell us where things stand at this moment. how is speaker boehner trying to reach his magic number of 217? randy, when i was listening to you at the top sounded like you were describing theater of the absurd. house republicans are inches closer to fixing their problem in the house of representatives. i think we have pictures now of the hou
crisis? guest: we all know we need spending cuts. it is harder to find common ground for increases, and 15 states including colorado have a regulatory environment allowing marijuana sales, medical marijuana but that is 100 percent taxed at the federal level. it is actually confiscated. so we are saying, reduce the marijuana tax and bring it in line with other sin taxes including alcohol or tobacco, and the estimates are that this bill would raise $30 billion over 10 years and it will raise more, and it does not make marijuana legal in any jurisdiction. i point that out. it is still illegal in 35 states. chris: how long has the medical marijuana been legal in colorado and those against it would say it brings in revenue from the tax but this are longer term health issues where, for set, it is a negative.
their finances as good or excellent. you put that in perspective, in the fall of 2008 during the presidential campaign, just before lehman brothers collapsed. 43% said they were in good shape. 35% by the time barack obama took office, it s fallen five more points to 30%. this is a very significant indicator of the public mood. gregg: you know, there is a lot of talk about taxing soda pop and junk food and labeling this as sin taxes. i don t think those are sinful. my list is very short. what did you find? we found that 32% like the idea of sin taxes. most say no way. you have to put in perspective. as taxes go, fairly popular, only 15% say that we should be taxing mileage when we drive our cars but still there is no public appetite for higher taxes