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Brandon J. McKoy
@Brandon_McKoy
President of @NJPolicy, @NLC_NJ alum, Trentonian & Jersey Boy forever. Progenitor of #MathIsReal. Don't forget to #FundTheRecovery. Views my own. #ballislife⛳️
Nov 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is why the lack of a robust tax structure in the NJ #cannabis legalization bill is so galling & disappointing. Look across the country at states w/ setups that enable real revenue for real community investments & it betrays our 6.625% (+2% local) as paltry & insufficient. Image In IL, which started January 1 this year, state officials expected to raise less than $50 million in 2020. As of mid-October, they surpassed $100 million. That's what happens when you have a proper tax structure & enough licenses to meet demand, you can make investments!
Nov 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
OMG - marijuana bill is up in Senate Judiciary on Monday at 10am. The bill dropped tonight, the committee advisory went out at 5pm, and the deadline to sign up to testify was 6pm. If you wanna testify, I hope you were Sonic the Hedgehog cause you had to catch all that quickly. Also this bill - which does zero for communities of color - will be heard in a Senate committee that only offers IN PERSON testimony during a raging pandemic that's disproportionately killing Black & brown folks.

Couldn't look like they care less about injustice if they tried.
Nov 7, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
At first reading of NJ's #cannabis bill draft, not only does it only apply the sales tax meaning it raises a paltry amount of funds, the vast majority of those funds goes to *🥁 🥁 🥁* police departments!

You can't make this up. This is the height of dark comedy. #NJpol News story with link to the bill language: nj.com/marijuana/2020…
Nov 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Great news for NJ. The big question now is whether lawmakers will implement an appropriate tax structure that raises enough resources to enable real reparative justice for communities terrorized by the War on Drugs. A failure to do so would be a negative stain on the whole thing. To get into the details a bit (could've said weeds but didn't!) the $300 million in annual revenue projection was based on a tax rate of 20% to 25%. Even better would be a tax by weight to avoid volatility. The problem is...
Jun 11, 2019 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
🚨Incoming THREAD🚨 on changes in NJ State Government staffing levels from 2008 through 2017 per the 2017 NJ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR - pg. 370)...if you had to guess whether NJ's workforce grew or shrank, which would it be? #mathisreal state.nj.us/treasury/omb/p… Some of the big 👀 popping numbers:
Dept of Health's workforce is down 46% since 2008 from 1,978 to 1,074. So about 900 fewer workers. Think that might have an impact on health inspections & whatnot?