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Economic dependence upon socially undesirable activities

Visualization of narrower problems

Claim

A sin tax is a tax that falls heaviest on the habits of the poor, such as smoking and drinking. The cause is not that the poor do more wrong than the rich, but that there are many more poor to do wrong. Thus a rich man may only pay a small additional tax increase on his luxury alcohol and cigarette purchases, while poorer people are subjected to tax increases on the common bulk brands, effectively placing the tax burden on the poor.

Broader

Economic dependence

Immoral public policy

Economic inefficiency

Inappropriate taxation

Environmental hazards of industrialization

Narrower

Unethical investment

Government dependence on arms manufacture

Economic dependence of countries on the drug trade

Resource consumption exacerbated by price distortions

Dependence of government revenue on inappropriate policies

Aggravates

Tobacco smoking

Hunting of animals

Government hypocrisy ^{[in 2 loops]}

Consumption of alcohol

Official protection for offenders

Reluctance to impose pollution taxes ^{[in 4 loops]}

Subsidized natural resource consumption ^{[in 4 loops]}

Failure to apply polluter pays principle

Government complicity in illegal activities

Undue taxation of certain goods and services

Deliberate governmental avoidance of legislative reform

Aggravated by

Overdependence on government subsidies

Irresponsible tobacco and cigarette advertising

Strategy(ies)

Growing narcotic crops

Changing opinion about socially undesirable activities

Treating addiction

Using complicity

Using socially undesirable activities

Taxing drugs

Taxing socially inappropriate products

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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