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Why were taxes not just an issue?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Taxes are an important issue. The survival of governments or nations can depend upon their ability to obtain tax revenue, the survival of businesses can depend upon the rate at which they are taxed, individuals can go to jail for failing to pay their taxes, all sorts of very important consequences result from taxes. Taxes are used to either encourage or discourage a wide variety of things that society either approves of or disapproves of. For example, cigarettes are highly taxed because we know that smoking is bad for people. But then that creates a black market in smuggled, untaxed cigarettes. Everything has unintended consequences.

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12y ago

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