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Are liquor taxes not taxes? You can absolutely avoid paying them by not drinking, and millions of people indeed do just that, but the fact that a tax is easily
by morgante 11y ago
Are liquor taxes not taxes?
You can absolutely avoid paying them by not drinking, and millions of people indeed do just that, but the fact that a tax is easily avoidable does not make it any less of a tax.
- Retric 11y agoThere are huge negative externalities to liquor which muddles the issue. If not forcing people to pay a carbon tax is a subsidy then the 'liquor' tax may not be an economic tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality Gas taxes are perhaps the clearest example of this where you can directly compare revenue with costs.