Overview: Presents four key cases studies on tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, and soda, and argues against the conventional wisdom in taxing these "sins".Encourages a rethinking of paternalism in governance and arg.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 expert
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