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Originally Posted by Seaver
The term was made under the Clinton administration when he jacked up the taxes on everything from alcohol to tobacco. I wasn't declaring it a sin, I was using the terminology the Democrats used at the time and what it has become known as.
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lets see, under clinton there was a republican majority so that would have to mean that the republicans proposed this tax increase on these specific items, right? so maybe the religious right special interest groups got this started and coined the phrase 'sin tax'.
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