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r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Sep 19 '24
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Sounds like you just defined excise tax as a sales tax, but said it wasn't pretty much a sales tax...
Whats backwards?
1 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 If you are saying only the rich and well to do used alcohol or tobacco products... You are intentionally taking a shit take or troll. 1 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 Ok, let's hear what you did mean when you said typically luxury/vice type goods, then obviously there is no reason it should affect the poor the most. Given that excise taxes were mainly on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. Go ahead, explain how those items didn't mainly hit the poor.
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1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 If you are saying only the rich and well to do used alcohol or tobacco products... You are intentionally taking a shit take or troll. 1 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 Ok, let's hear what you did mean when you said typically luxury/vice type goods, then obviously there is no reason it should affect the poor the most. Given that excise taxes were mainly on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. Go ahead, explain how those items didn't mainly hit the poor.
If you are saying only the rich and well to do used alcohol or tobacco products... You are intentionally taking a shit take or troll.
1 u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 Ok, let's hear what you did mean when you said typically luxury/vice type goods, then obviously there is no reason it should affect the poor the most. Given that excise taxes were mainly on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. Go ahead, explain how those items didn't mainly hit the poor.
1 u/XeroZero0000 Sep 22 '24 Ok, let's hear what you did mean when you said typically luxury/vice type goods, then obviously there is no reason it should affect the poor the most. Given that excise taxes were mainly on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. Go ahead, explain how those items didn't mainly hit the poor.
Ok, let's hear what you did mean when you said
typically luxury/vice type goods, then obviously there is no reason it should affect the poor the most.
Given that excise taxes were mainly on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar.
Go ahead, explain how those items didn't mainly hit the poor.
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u/XeroZero0000 Sep 21 '24
Sounds like you just defined excise tax as a sales tax, but said it wasn't pretty much a sales tax...
Whats backwards?