Bring on the sin taxes


iconWith the victory over tobacco nearly in the bag, the pleasure police are setting their sites on their next target: fast food. Detroit is vying to be front runner by imposing a sin tax on fast food.

Faced with a $300 million budget hole, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hoping people in this already heavily taxed city won't mind forking over a few extra cents for their Big Macs and Whoppers. He wants to ask Detroit voters to approve a 2 percent fast-food tax - on top of the 6 percent state sales tax on restaurant meals.

The mayor says consumers will barely notice the extra cents at the cash register, but critics say the tax would unfairly burden the poor and hamper economic development.

Yes, nobody will notice a small 2% tax when it's lumped in with all those other confiscatory taxes they have to pay. Instead of making the vendor be the bad guy, perhaps the Mayor should be required to go door to door and collect it.


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Don't sin taxes violate the separation of church and state? After all, I don't believe in sin.

Posted by: Brett at May 11, 2005 10:31 AM

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