sides when they talk about human dignity in this case we are looking at a movement of people who have an unfinished business since the 1960s. why haven t they raised it in washington? the government intruded on the businesses and their ability to hire, rather than on the businesses themselves. in many cases, this has been brought up in washington and we have seen some attention to it. but the real way to get the message out there, to get a real change happening, is to keep it in people s day-to-day conversations no. keep it in washington s day-to-day conversation. you re going after the wrong message and the wrong messenger. i think that several of these business institutions have a grand degree of power over people s economic outcomes. things like the banks that raciallygsrrr profiled their se lehning market publishing and that s still an outcome we re feeling in our pocket today. what about the progressive tax policies of the liberals and progressives who want to who i
poor people poor. if i buy ten packs of cigarettes a day in new york city, after 18 years, $120,000. i can t send my my kids to do by smoke you. tax gasoline. sin tax, tack the sew da, tax the slurpy. those are sin taxes that hold back the poor, least educated people in america. this is linked to my point we make digitses about our taxes-act can in our best interests. that s not apple. we have seen over the last self relax cycles more and more it s big money players influencing politics. wal-mart spend: $30 million on the last election. 65,000 people for the holidays. blacks, whites, everyone in between. arrest wrong with that? you re disrupting the ability to make money. i think new hiring is central to economic progress, and thriving middle class nor m making it sound like they re keeping them chained to this ridgesters. these steers, evils they are,
what we have always done. we have exchanges where the government has more involvement. it s not necessarily government sponsored but bureaucratry run. it fits the narrative nicely. whether the government should tax us for having things we maybe shouldn t have is another matter. is the government the body to decide what you should and shouldn t have in your body? that s my problem. i see a direct connection between the government having more say in your health care and the government having more say in what you pay for things it deems bad to put in your body. the problem with these taxes on sugary sodas and food and beverages that are deemed unfit for consumption, is it tends to punish poor people. and it is not people who probably could afford to hire nutritionists and others to consult what they put in their body. it s people who can t afford to be tacked anymore, and the sin taxes are only going to multiply.
demonize video gamers. colorado will get money from marijuana. that s the upside of sin taxes. the government always wants more revenue. maybe it s not such a bad thing if adults can legally smoke pot and not go on the black market. people are happy to pay the higher tax for a while. that is one of the ways sin taxes can be a powerful agent for liberalizing policies. next how complex taxes invite politicians to use this to punish their enemies. that s not good. do you guys ride? well. no. sometimes, yeah. yes.
group. colorado is excited about the money they will get from marijuana. that is the upside of sin taxes cash strapped governments always want more revel new. they are willing to say something like maybe it s not such a bad thing that adults can legally smoke pot instead of going on the tax market. people are happy to pay the tax for a while at a higher rate. i think it should be taxed the same as milk essentially. but that is one of the ways sin taxes can be a powerful agent for liberalizing policies. next how complex taxes like what we have in here invite politicians to use this to punish their enemy. jake and i have been best friends for years.