Taxation
Taxation is the most visible and perhaps the most important issue to voters and policymakers around the world. Although it is often criticized as excessive government, taxation is an important policy tool. Taxes can be used to level the playing field, to limit size or sprawl, to protect the environment, and to encourage local ownership and production.
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Taxes & Death
As the saying goes, two certainties in life, Death and Taxes, there are reasons that we have tax and while nobody particularly enjoys paying them they are "as a rule" unavoidable and as long as people are made aware of the benefits they receive from their tax payments then some form of comprehension can exist.
twinkie tax
taxation has worked very well to give us as Americans the life in a free society that we've worked hard for. Unfortunatley the rail against "no new taxes" has skewed the publics perception of what taxes are supposed to be for. As an example the taxes on cigarettes have done wonders for reducing the number of people who smoke, unfotunately none of the money goes to support helath care which is where it should be. My thought is that we should be taxing any and all "Junk" food to the tune of 1 cent per ounce. Imagine if you will a fee of 1 cent per 12 ounce soda and that each Minnesotan drinks one per day. For approximately 6,000,000 residents that comes to around $262 million per year, almost enough to pay for Minnesota care just with soda. My question is this, has anyone done any real economic analasys on how much money could be raised? How much we could reduce the incidence of obesity? How we could use the money if put into a protected fund to help business pool resources to create an insurance program to reduce the cost of insurance? If not, don't you think someone should? This kind of fee puts the cost of health care on those that choose to indulge in bad bahavior, almost makes too much sense don't you think?
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