Title Taxing sin / Michael Thom

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents 1. Tax Your Sins, Experts Say -- 2. Taxing Soda -- 3. Taxing Alcohol -- 4. Taxing Tobacco -- 5. Taxing Marijuana -- 6. Taxing Twenty-First Century Sins -- 7. Don't Tax Sin, Forgive It Summary 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 experts and policymakers tell us, many of these alleged sins impose very little, if any, cost on society, and the harms that do exist can be minimized without resorting to tax. What follows in this book is a discussion of four case studieson tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and sodawhich make the case against the conventional wisdom in taxing these "sins", before concluding that when it comes to taxing sin, it is time for governments to forgiveand forget. Michael Thom is an Associate Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, USA Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 23, 2021) Subject Taxation of articles of consumption. Economics -- Psychological aspects. Tobacco -- Taxation -- Case studies Marijuana -- Taxation -- Case studies Alcohol -- Taxation -- Case studies Carbonated beverages -- Taxation -- Case studies Alcohol -- Taxation Carbonated beverages -- Taxation Economics -- Psychological aspects Marijuana -- Taxation Taxation of articles of consumption Tobacco -- Taxation Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030491765 3030491765 3030491757 9783030491758 9783030491772 3030491773

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