Do sin taxes work?

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🗓️ 8 November 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Taxing things like alcohol, tobacco and gambling is big money and has been for a long time. But are these "sin taxes" keeping people from indulging or are they simply a way to raise revenue? Learn all about sin taxes in today's episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:31.0	Welcome to Stuffy Shitno from House Stuffworks.com.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.9	Jerry's over there too.
0:47.3	So this is Stuffy Shitno.
0:51.8	How you doing?
0:53.2	Good.
0:54.2	You know this one we did a podcast in June 2012.
1:00.8	Should we have a fat tax?
1:02.2	Sure.
1:03.2	I remember.
1:04.2	Now that I look at the timeline of, I'm sure we'll cover this now about Mayor Bloomberg
1:11.9	in New York in 2012, that was in May 2012 when he wanted to ban the sale of soft drinks
1:18.4	over 16 ounces in New York City.
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