http://healthblog.ncpa.org/taxing-the-poor-%e2%80%94-again/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 07:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/taxing-the-poor-%e2%80%94-again/comment-page-1/#comment-40745 Bruce Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:43:27 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1979#comment-40745 They will argue that they want to encourage people to quit smoking. Of course if people actually did quit smoking, there would be no revenue to fund the program. Or to put it differently, government has no incentive to price people out of the cigarette market. It's incentive is to maximize the tax revenue from that market. They will argue that they want to encourage people to quit smoking. Of course if people actually did quit smoking, there would be no revenue to fund the program. Or to put it differently, government has no incentive to price people out of the cigarette market. It’s incentive is to maximize the tax revenue from that market.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/taxing-the-poor-%e2%80%94-again/comment-page-1/#comment-40721 Bret Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:19:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1979#comment-40721 It's the hypocracy of the whole thing that is truly mindboggling. It’s the hypocracy of the whole thing that is truly mindboggling.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/taxing-the-poor-%e2%80%94-again/comment-page-1/#comment-40681 Larry C. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:56:19 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1979#comment-40681 Tom, I don't think the left has any special desire to punish the poor. They would tax us all to death if they could. The poor get screwed because they are the most politically vulnerable. Tom, I don’t think the left has any special desire to punish the poor. They would tax us all to death if they could. The poor get screwed because they are the most politically vulnerable.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/taxing-the-poor-%e2%80%94-again/comment-page-1/#comment-40676 Tom H. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:56:03 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=1979#comment-40676 Question is: What does the left have against poor people? When they are not proposing to tax them to death, they are trying to regulate them out of the markets for housing, medical care, education, transportation -- you name it -- leaving them with no other choice but to turn to the state for the bare necessities of life. Question is: What does the left have against poor people? When they are not proposing to tax them to death, they are trying to regulate them out of the markets for housing, medical care, education, transportation — you name it — leaving them with no other choice but to turn to the state for the bare necessities of life.

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