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Taxing sin / Michael Thom.

9783030491765 (electronic bk.)
3030491765 (electronic bk.)
3030491757
9783030491758
9783030491772
3030491773
9783030491758 (pbk.)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-49176-5 doi

HJ5711

336.278

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax. For centuries, governments have levied these "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco, but the list of taxable sins has now grown to include soda and marijuana, with calls to impose further taxes on plastic bags, meat, and even robots and carbon. Contrary to what experts and policymakers tell us, many of these alleged sins impose very little, if any, cost on society, and the harms that do exist can be minimized without resorting to tax. What follows in this book is a discussion of four case studieson tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and sodawhich make the case against the conventional wisdom in taxing these "sins", before concluding that when it comes to taxing sin, it is time for governments to forgiveand forget. Michael Thom is an Associate Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, USA.

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