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Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners (www.economist.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/economy
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They’ll need to define new sins. They proposed practical ones, with carbon taxes and the like, but the big sinners are far too powerful and well-connected, so it’ll have to be something smaller like mobile games or flavoured coffee.