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One thing that we know about lots of
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these goods, soda, cigarettes, to some
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extent alcohol, is that they're more
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heavily consumed by people who are sort
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of lower in the income distribution. And
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so a thing you want to be aware of,
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thing you want to be careful of is are
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you increasing taxes that are going to
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sort of fall most heavily on people who
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are poorer. Now there are ways of
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offsetting that with like you know
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making the income tax a little more
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progressive at the same time that you
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impose some sin taxes that in a way that
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sort of offsets that distributional
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impact. But it is something that you
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want to have in mind when you're
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deciding on these kinds of tax policies.
