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Why is it objectionable to tax the poor?

• rtkwe 11y ago
  It's not taxing the poor in general that's bad. It's when the tax has a disproportionate impact on the poor compared to the rich. They're regressive and generally considered bad because when designing a tax to pay for say a welfare project that is supposed to benefit the poor taxing them to pay for it is counter intuitive. I'm split on this tax though since it's a sin tax so on one hand it doesn't really work to tax someone who isn't a smoker but on the other it's not working so why increase the burden on the poor unless it's preventing new smokers?