Why is it that government officials seem inspired to reach the heights of creativity coming up with new taxes? Who knows. But their efforts could mean you’ll be paying new taxes on everything from bicycles to bowling, 2-by-4s to marijuana.
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Will Banning or Taxing Soda Really Make Us Healthier?
The taste of soda may be sweet, but the potential consequences of those empty calories — obesity, diabetes, higher mortality, and skyrocketing health care costs — are not. In response, many states and cities in recent years …
5 Hypothetical New Taxes That Americans Actually Support
If ever there was a truism, it’s that everybody hates taxes—this week especially. Or do they? In at least a handful of situations, a surprisingly large portion of Americans favor introducing new taxes or jacking up the rates on …
Experiments in soda taxes and pay walls: an update
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about soda taxes, the subject of a story I had in the magazine. At the time, Time.com readers couldn’t see the story, thanks to our new (pay) wall. Well, as it turns out, we’re only hiding our magazine stories for two weeks, and then they’re going up on the web site in full form. So now, after much …
Experiments in soda taxes and pay walls
I’ve got a story in this week’s magazine about the movement among state and local governments to tax soda. Such taxes are seen as a way to both raise revenue and discourage consumption of a product linked to obesity (and, in turn, rising health costs). As Kansas state senator John Vratil told me, “I thought we might kill two birds with …
