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To: Sam who wrote (111490)	5/20/2009 10:18:48 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 541371

Yep, but the Whiskey Rebellion was about questions surrounding taxing whiskey as an income source for the state. Strikes me that's a different question from taxing sugar to decrease obesity. Related but different. It may look like hair splitting and it gets one to the same place via a different route, but I can support a sugar tax to raise revenue when other, more reasonable sources are cut off (keeping estate taxes at pre 2000 levels, for instance). But using taxes to decrease obesity strikes me as a bit over the top and a regressive tax as well (whoops, time for a bit of nuance, all "sin" taxes are regressive; just pointing out that an obesity tax would qualify).

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