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Originally Posted by Nick911sc
Yes...but excise taxes are put in place in order to discourage purchase of goods.
And if the Gov't was smart they would legalize pot and make a shitload of money off of it.
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Wiki:
In defence of excises on strong drink,
Adam Smith wrote: "It has for some time past been the policy of Great Britain to discourage the consumption of spirituous liquors, on account of their supposed tendency to ruin the health and to corrupt the morals of the common people."
[6] Samuel Johnson was less flattering in his 1755 dictionary: "EXCI'SE.
n.s. ... A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid."
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