From Ducky Paredes:
The rationale for "sin" taxes is so that there will be money to treat the smokers and drinkers of the diseases that they get from their bad habits. In the case of the present "sin" taxes being worked out in Congress, hardly a centavo of this will be spent on health, whether of those who "sin" or of anyone else. Instead, the money will go towards the usual expenses of government!Why is this juetenglord free as a bird??
In fact, a large portion of this will go to Chavit Singson who is charged with dividing the excise tax that goes towards the tobacco-growing provinces to the other Ilocos provinces. That might be the bigger "sin" than the sins that are being taxed.
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