Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw

Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by colechristensen on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:05PM (#20899895)

But do they?

Is any government calculating the net cost between tax dollars spent because of cigarette smoking and tax dollars gathered from tobacco products and setting the tax in that manner?

Has any government put a lower or higher tax rate on any tobacco product based on risk or cost profile?

It is not that the arguments you are making aren't viable, I'm just not so sure that anyone is actually doing those things.

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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:23PM (#20900042)

We're going to start seeing that with taxes on EVs to make up for lost fuel tax revenue.

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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by tptacek on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:28PM (#20900067)

But that's not a complete engagement with the argument, right? Fuel taxes pay for more than just the carbon and pollution externalities of driving, but also of the cost of maintaining safe roads.

You can obviously disagree with the argument, but it's not incoherent and is in keeping with the underlying notion of a Pigovian tax.

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Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw by tptacek on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:07PM (#20899908)

Aren't sin taxes one of the textbook examples of internalizing (Pigovian) taxes?

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