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So then you would repeal the taxes on cigarettes, booze, gambling?
But at the heart of this is the central question of public domain verses personal choice - this is really what matters here. Another tax is just another tax, and frankly I could really care less about that in and of itself.
The logic applied is that since your actions could potentially cost me money in either taxes or insurance costs, I get to dictate how you live - I [citizen] can penalize you for violations.
In order to quantify the concept, how about if we establish a baseline? What must be the potential threat to society [in dollars], in order to impose a tax or penalty? Should we use dollars as the unit of measure? Of course we can look to seatbelt and helmet laws, as well as smoking and drinking for the estimated cost to the public per capita. We can look at the probability of a person's actions resulting in public liability, then we can look at any potential issue and check to see if it falls within the limits, and what the penalty should be.
Does this seem reasonable?
But at the heart of this is the central question of public domain verses personal choice - this is really what matters here. Another tax is just another tax, and frankly I could really care less about that in and of itself.
The logic applied is that since your actions could potentially cost me money in either taxes or insurance costs, I get to dictate how you live - I [citizen] can penalize you for violations.
In order to quantify the concept, how about if we establish a baseline? What must be the potential threat to society [in dollars], in order to impose a tax or penalty? Should we use dollars as the unit of measure? Of course we can look to seatbelt and helmet laws, as well as smoking and drinking for the estimated cost to the public per capita. We can look at the probability of a person's actions resulting in public liability, then we can look at any potential issue and check to see if it falls within the limits, and what the penalty should be.
Does this seem reasonable?
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