I'm just appalled we're continuing with a regressive tax system that disproportionately hurts the poor, even if soda is unhealthy.https://twitter.com/ericacbarnett/status/870043489530134528 …
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Replying to @IronHeadJane
I have bad news for you about booze and cigarettes How do you feel about a carbon tax?
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Replying to @djinnius
Excellent question, and I've thought about it in a similar vein. I understand how taxing end-product for consumer came to pass, but - 1/
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Replying to @IronHeadJane @djinnius
Putting the friction on sales on producers via consumers still puts Capitalism and corporations as more important than health reasoning. 2/
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Replying to @IronHeadJane @djinnius
Addictions, habituation, people consume. Having production only respond to hopeful decreased consumption bc tax? Rather target production.
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Replying to @IronHeadJane @djinnius
TBH, I'd rather tax corporations (no loopholes), have them raise prices, than have a targeted sales tax applied. Even if price bc the same.
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Replying to @IronHeadJane
I'm glad you see that either way consumers pay the tax. What, then, is the difference between collecting at the factory vs. the register?
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Replying to @IronHeadJane @djinnius
People will consume what is available to consume, even at stupid prices. You can't consume what isn't produced.
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Replying to @IronHeadJane
So adding ten cents to the price of soda at the factory discourages production, but not at the cash register? Why would that be?
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At least around here, merchants eat the cost, soda is a loss-leader sold at psychologically chosen prices.
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Replying to @djinnius
Right, corporations lose little in this scheme, and in this case, stores lose.
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