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We've been using "sin taxes" for a very long time, especially on tobacco and alcohol. Nothing new there, really.


This is a bad comparison.

Tobacco and alcohol, both of which have objective, measurable negative health outcomes supported by decades of research, versus some vague notion of "junk products" as defined by... who? And this is without even getting into the fact that the tariffs will raise the price of everything, not just these supposed "junk products."


And they have been a regressive tax on the poor since day one and not helped anybody.




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