RE: A question for Anti-Theists
June 30, 2014 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2014 at 11:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, so perhaps instead of saying that human life is "sacred" - your constitution ought to say that? Eh?
I appreciate that you are attempting to explain tax to me, but I'm trying to express to you that these are a subset of taxes for which the term sin-tax is used - to denote the justifications for the tax (and public apathy towards the tax), historically and in the present. If the goal is to modify our behavior, we are being herded into a decidedly puritanical pen. The same justifications that you feel ought to bump up the price of gas does not, in fact, occur here - and there is great public antipathy towards any such proposal. It's a moment of pure, unabashed and naked cribbing of religious busy-bodyism, written into law.
"Tax the blackjack table- that stuff is "bad" and those people can't complain, we're doing it for their own good - don't touch my gasoline tank!"
Why don;t we see proposals to tax gasoline at an immense rate while subsidizing tobacco as a means of carbon sequestration?
I appreciate that you are attempting to explain tax to me, but I'm trying to express to you that these are a subset of taxes for which the term sin-tax is used - to denote the justifications for the tax (and public apathy towards the tax), historically and in the present. If the goal is to modify our behavior, we are being herded into a decidedly puritanical pen. The same justifications that you feel ought to bump up the price of gas does not, in fact, occur here - and there is great public antipathy towards any such proposal. It's a moment of pure, unabashed and naked cribbing of religious busy-bodyism, written into law.
"Tax the blackjack table- that stuff is "bad" and those people can't complain, we're doing it for their own good - don't touch my gasoline tank!"
Why don;t we see proposals to tax gasoline at an immense rate while subsidizing tobacco as a means of carbon sequestration?
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