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Deterrence taxes like the soda tax, the cancerstick tax, and the carbon tax, only serve to deter and demean the poor.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jun 8 '16, 20:04

The rich can eat the cost.

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its like that for speeding tickets too (unless you live in Iceland, as the founder of Nokia found out) -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 9, 01:51
sure, but the data shows that they actually do work at reducing consumption across incomes. - mafic Jun 8, 20:27 7
- because while people with lower incomes pay a larger share of their income as tax, they also are less able to afford the tax, and reduce consumption - mafic Jun 8, 20:31 6
  - To summarize your IM, it is for their own good. -- nm - Spawn Jun 8, 21:07 3
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    - Everyone likes individual choice as an idea, but people (not just some people, but people) make pretty lousy decisions. -- nm - Roger More Jun 9, 05:00
    - for the state's good as much as that. they have an interest in people not dying of preventable disease, particularly if they're paying for it. -- nm - mafic Jun 8, 21:18
  - I always wonder if the argument about it being a tax on the poor is nothing more than a cynically clever argument created by the pop and cigarette com - . Jun 8, 21:05 1
    - Who do you think is funding the anti-tax ads here? -- nm* - znufrii, dad. Jun 9, 06:33
(Although I did support the carbon tax in BC, so I guess I'm an asshole ;-) ) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 8, 20:06

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