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Originally Posted by kane
have also long been a supporter of sin taxes as long as the money goes towards something good and can't be shifted away. My state (like many others) has long had trouble funding the schools. So about 20 years ago they started up a statewide lottery. They sold it as being a solution for schools and most of the money raised by the lottery would go to the schools. I guess at first it did, then they started shifting it away to other things. Now next to none of it goes to the schools and the schools are right back having the same funding issues.
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That scenario happens far too often. It isn't just your state. Like you said, a tax is introduced to conquer a certain problem... once that certain problem is conquered, that tax should disappear. Instead, that tax money gets shifted to other areas that may not even be necessary and you end up back at square one. Five years later when that initial certain problem starts up again, they find something else to tax. And the cycle repeats.
Taxes should have limits or goals. They should not be a tax sitting out there in the open for all to rape.