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The reality is that while taxes on cigarettes, like other sin taxes, might have a social goal, they have a significant side effect: revenue.
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Cigarette taxes, like other sin taxes, are by their nature, regressive.
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His call to reopen the fiscal pact looks like a licence for fiscal sin.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
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Investors have gained 2.5 percentage point more per year investing in sin stocks, like Harrah's Entertainment and Diageo (responsible for spirits ranging from Guinness to Smirnoff), than in companies of comparable size in other sectors, according to Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk, writing in the Journal of Financial Economics.
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Sin taxes are really excise taxes, like those on alcohol, cigarettes and candy.
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He felt like he knew now why it was a true sin and not just a leftover rule from past society.
NEWYORKER: Good People
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He might be somewhat of a hypocrite, like the Assyrians in Isaiah, which would be a far graver sin than the appointment—he had decided he believed this.
NEWYORKER: Good People
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Bishop Fortich's superior, Cardinal Jaime Sin, archbishop of Manila, provides guidelines to his clergy: like the bishop, he thundered in the pulpit against the iniquities of Marcos, but granted him the blessings of the church.
ECONOMIST: Antonio Fortich
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The evening felt, rather, like a kind of ironic punishment, a comic book-style retribution for a sin I must have committed and deeply suppressed long ago.
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Bands like Minor Threat, Negative Approach, Necros, Battalion of Saints, Adolescents, Sin 34, The Meatmen, Urban Waste, Void, Crucifucks, Youth Brigade, The Mob, Gang Green, etc.
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These waivers allow recidivist firms like JPMorgan Chase, which has settled six fraud cases in the last 13 years, to sin again and again.
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