If the profit from one cannabis shop is about a million bucks and when the other one opens, another million—plus the profits from the many, many licenses to sell alcohol, which probably amount to, I don’t know, eight million, to get us to a nice round ten million, then yes, Littleton, we can end local poverty.

Easy.

We need only apply this formula: public license + public board = public good.

In one calendar year, the profits from those public licenses could give every impoverished family, of which there are approximately 220 in Littleton, $45,454.54.

Done. Solved.

In one year, Littleton has ended local poverty.

But wait, there’s more.

Once those 220 families have been brought (well) above the poverty line, we then start giving those people who are right above the poverty line the profits from those PUBLIC LICENSES that are administered by a PUBLICLY-ELECTED BOARD to continue to do some actual PUBLIC GOOD.

And this new system keeps looping back to give profits—unrealizable without receiving a PUBLIC LICENSE from that PUBLIC BOARD—to people in need.

Years ago, I remembered hearing about how “people in Alaska get money for living in Alaska.”

Money for what? Enduring cold and dark winters? Hazard pay?

Nope, they get money from oil profits.

Alaskans share in oil profits, and each and every one of them gets a check.

We could do that here. Instead of oil, we use the profits from cannabis and alcohol to fund a Littleton UBI, short for Universal Basic Income, where everyone, no matter who you are, gets to share in the profits, equally, like they do in Alaska.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

The poor go first.

As a single-issue candidate, I ask that you ONLY place a check—in the box next to my name on the ballot—if you are voting for the IDEA.

A vote for me is a vote to END LOCAL POVERTY and an undeniable statement that you, like me, are sick and tired of the rules helping those with power and influence and money.

Public license, public board, public good.

Your vote is a vote to change PUBLIC policy,

Jenna