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This is why we need fact based research to understand these costs, and use a direct tax on those items to recoup those costs from those who engage in those risk
by cmurf 10y ago
This is why we need fact based research to understand these costs, and use a direct tax on those items to recoup those costs from those who engage in those risks.
Go skiing? Well there's a higher tax for the ticket because you have X% higher risk of breaking a leg. Twinkies right now are a grocery food so in fact it has less tax, where it probably should be taxed like booze or cigarettes (in effect a sin tax). Of course sin taxes get abused, where the money goes to the general fund rather than going to mitigation for the undesirable behavior.
- brianwawok 10y agoThen what happens to diet soda? Likely not good for you but no calories. Tax free or same tax as normal cola? I think for most things we are too stupid to really calculate the extranalaties of products.