How to Use sin tax in a Sentence
sin tax
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And a plastic tax is a sort of sin tax, only on a global scale.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
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But again, the sin tax is set to expire in 2034, and revenues from the bed tax have underperformed since the start of the pandemic.
—Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2021
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The logic behind a sin tax boils down to simple economics.
—Chase Purdy, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2020
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The tax on executive salaries above $1 million was envisioned as a sort of sin tax.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
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But sin tax revenues have dropped in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Franz said.
—Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2020
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Too often sin taxes become taxes on those who can least afford it.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2019
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Colorado wants a piece of the sin tax from Proposition DD because nobody ever went broke by banking dollars spent on our little vices.
—Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2019
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The kingdom has already put in place a sin tax on tobacco, soft drinks and energy drinks, and lifted some energy subsidies in late 2015.
—Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2017
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The county’s general fund could be on the hook for quite a bit more, especially if the deal’s primary revenue streams, like the sin tax or bed tax, don’t’ perform to expectation.
—Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
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Although the Johnson campaign cites a dissenting study, on the whole there is good evidence that sin taxes change people’s behaviour.
—The Economist, 4 July 2019
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Because those results and thorough analyses aren’t immediate, the slow drip of research findings can often get buried in the intense debate around sin taxes.
—Chase Purdy, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2020
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The idea that people should pay for the consequences of their personal choices — sin taxes, basically — has some intuitive appeal.
—Austin Frakt, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
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