That's a very odd, unorthodox statement. I didn't prep him on this. See, I would argue that Jay and everybody across the marijuana industry nationwide, they don't want higher taxes. Democrats like Hong and other individuals out there, they will very openly talk about raising taxes. and basically getting money from them by taxing their business models and tapping into their margins and their revenue. This automatically will cause a shortfall with businesses. (01:32–01:39)
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