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Originally Posted by molson
You're leaving out the other benefit of sin taxes though - it allows people to avoid them by choice, leaving them with a lower overall tax rate. It gives more people the choice to help themselves. I'm sure plenty of others will still choose sin.
And it's not just "sin", there's also environmental applications here. I'm in favor of huge gasoline taxes, and tax credits for solar panels, hybrids, etc. That again gives people choices to help us all, and be compensated for it.
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This is what's inherently wrong though. Your notion of "helping themselves". Not everyone views sins the same way. I don't think having a beer after work is a sin. I don't think playing some cards at the casino is a sin. Yet you want to tax that because you may think it's a sin.
It's a pussy way of trying to get rid of something you don't like without having to be labeled as someone taking away another's freedom. It's still people getting off on telling other people how to live their lives. It's punishing people for doing something that you feel is immoral.