Wow. What do you have against 3-toe'd sloth's to put them at the same low level as those idiots that passed these taxes?

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People don't stop smoking. They pay $11 a pack for generic cigarets in Seattle and elsewhere where there are big tobacco taxes. Tobacco certainly brings in revenue to states and counties, cities, etc. It's the acceptance of sugar and fat as exempt from the so-called sin tax that causes these measures to fail.
Once cigarettes were culturally accepted as dangerous nasty and bad for your health, the sky's the limit on how much a state or city can add to them.

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So then, you agree that it is an acceptable function of government to use the tax code as a weapon to use against citizens to shape behavior?

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A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

So, like, if the government suddenly and without justification, labels a common gas as toxic, they can use that to tax citizens to death in order to modify their behavior?

Yeah, right!

The purpose of taxation in a Democratic Republic, is not to modify behavior, but to raise revenue for "necessary" expenses of government.

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And 1 and 2 are

New York

California

nope but what's good for the goose is good for the gander so if we are doing that with one vice we can do it with another. smokers have paid for a lotta stuff over the years. and drinkers too come to think of it. Let's get some mt dew addicts taxed or forget about any of it.

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And you incorrectly assume that I am OK with those other sin taxes. Fact of the matter is that, as Frank stated, taxes are put in place to raise revenue to keep the government functioning. Sin taxes are attempts to change public behavior. And what becomes acceptable to one group (Democrats for example) may be deemed unacceptable by the next group coming into power (Republicans). The old adage of "be careful what you ask for" becomes even more apparent if you look at the big picture.

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A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

Okay. Then let's tax reading the bible.

So go to bat for tobacco farmers and alcohol distillers and raise heck about that!

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I'm not the one that levied taxes on soda nor am I the one that started the thread. But since someone did, I posted my opinion just as you did. My opinion was that this is another example of government trying influence behavior through the tax code and you seem to be in favor of it.

Does that about sum it up?

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A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington