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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Um, that is how the natural course of the market works, why bring the government into it, unless you want more and more government in our lives.
This is a sin tax, pure and simple, plus the gov't is lying about how they are going to use the money.
There are a lot of sins in this world, without going the "reduce to ridiculous" route, which of your sins are you ok with being taxed or taxed even more?
My points stays the same, and I have been very consistent: this could have been accomplished without involving the government. We don't need more government, we need less. We are never going to have a truly balanced budget or decreasing deficits until we stop the growth of gov't. Yet, every election cycle, we vote to make the government bigger, not smaller.
I just don't get it.
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Many things can be accomplished without involving the government. Why bring government into anything? Anything is theoretically possible without a government. Why even have a government?
I believe that the government exists for whatever purpose the people see fit to use it for within the bounds of the constitution. "Big Government" is a boogeyman. Everyone hates big government until big government can help them.
How can you claim that we'll never have a "truly balanced budget or decreasing deficits until we stop the growth of gov't"? That assertion is more faith based than anything. See charlatan's post about canada.
Sin taxes do what they're supposed to do. They provide an incentive for people to stop doing certain things. It's the same principal as giving people and corporations tax breaks for doing certain things. It's rewarding people/corporations based on their good behavior, "good" being defined by the people making the laws. I don't see how you can support one without the other seeing as how they're two peas of the same pod. These things exist because the market is often completely inadequate when it comes to self regulation.