How to Use sin tax in a Sentence

sin tax

noun

• And a plastic tax is a sort of sin tax, only on a global scale.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The logic behind a sin tax boils down to simple economics.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2020
• The tax on executive salaries above $1 million was envisioned as a sort of sin tax.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
• But sin tax revenues have dropped in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Franz said.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2020
• Too often sin taxes become taxes on those who can least afford it.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024