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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by beerandt on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:19PM (#29004132)
>How about increased taxpayer funded healthcare costs?

A known cost of socialized medicine.

Unless you want to go down the road of justifying any government coercion or loss of freedom as a taxpayer cost saving measure.

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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:21PM (#29004165)
My point was that

> but requiring taxes to cover the negative externalities from vice is fine, e.g. funding DUI checkpoints).

Is not as simple as it may sound.

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