Detroit Adult Entertainment: Broken promises and the necessary sins

September 29, 2009 at 9:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

The problem is that train of thought can’t just end there. Because our state is in such dire need of tax revenues, this increase on cigarettes has two faces. The first is a moral admonishment of smokers, or bad people who should pay for filling the air with their dirty poisons; the second is the underlying premise that more people should start smoking.
This is why sin taxes are a bad, shortsighted idea, and the logical underpinnings come undone. With the introduction of sin taxes, the government, for the first time, now has an actual incentive for people to continue this behavior. Public coughers now fund the public coffers.
If people claim this penalty will be used as a deterrent to smoking, why doesn’t the government tax all things it finds sinful, such as prostitution or drugs? Well, the short answer is if they did so, within five years there would be prostitution lobbyists in Washington, D.C.

See the full article from “The South End”

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