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by d2vid 4242 days ago
We tax income, even though we agree that income is a good thing.

Why not tax cigarettes, soda, pollution, and other bad things. The dead-weight loss from the tax is actually a good thing in these cases.

Agreed that there are always unintended consequences, I don't really know for sure, and democracy is unfortunately usually about feelings.