Cigarette taxes discourage smoking...why don't liberals understand higher tax rates discourage productivity?

Answer 1

Because the reality of this is too obvious. Poor people don't get taxed as much or at all. Yet the wealthy and successful ones do at a much higher tax bracket. It kills investment and entrepreneurship. Why would you risk investing your money or build or expand your business (which creates jobs...)? Liberals are too stupid to understand that lower taxes creates more revenue because it creates incentive to stimulate the economy. They would rather punish the rich and reward the poor and lazy. Wealth redistribution is a crock. So are liberals and Dems...

Answer 2

The CEO of the last company I worked for made 11 million dollars a year. After about five years, he didn't have to work. Heck, after one year he didn't have to work. But he's still there. The "higher taxes" people talk about are minor to someone with millions. Really wealthy people do not work for money. They have all they need. They work for personal satisfaction or because they enjoy building their companies. They do not sit around waiting for a paycheck to pay their bills. The people paying some of the lowest percentage tax rates do not work at all, their income comes purely from investments. Wealthy people in America pay less taxes than wealthy people in every other civilized country on earth. They are not suffering in the least from being overly taxed. Higher taxes does not discourage investment, what do you think people do when they have billions? The notion that everyone is out to dodge taxes is ridiculous. The sad thing is that the right wing has convinced so many middle class Americans that they must defend the rich from taxes. The rich don't give a crap about you. They probably find your total ignorance of how the world works at their wealth level funny. This whole line of thinking is the result of the "trickle down" theory that started with Reagan. Look at what has happened in the last 30 years: middle class incomes are stagnant, the poverty level increases every year, and the top two percent have become obscenely rich. Wealth is trickling up in the country, prosperity is not trickling down.

Answer 3

Because all things are not equal, and these things are not even close. Higher taxes on cigarettes will discourage smoking because people will be less likely to buy cigarettes if they cost too much. Higher income taxes don't discourage productivity because people will know that they will still make more, even if the taxes are higher, if they produce more.

Answer 4

Cigarettes are going to be phased out....and I smoke. When the country was young it was a source of income when they had little else. The government saw the income potential and allowed it. Today there is no way they would get legalized.
As far as the tax statement I do not think it changes the productivity.

Answer 5

So...we lower Cigarette taxes and you'll productively smoke twice as much,.....how is that productive, I won't hire a smoker because of the 20 breaks a day for a smoke issue.

Answer 6

You are obviously simplifying it. Taxes are a balance. Make them too low, and you don't have any tax revenue. Make then too high, and it hurts productivity. So it comes down to opinions on what the right balance is. You are trying to make this a right/wrong issue. It is much more complicated then that.

All I know right now is that the government is spending way, WAY more then they make.

Answer 7

Hey! Just be glad the only price you have to pay to live in this great nation is taxes.

Answer 8

What does the tax payer matter any way? They aint in charge.

Typical politician's attitude.

However I agree with your statement.

Answer 9

I feel enlightened after reading this question. Lets lower taxes, I'm all for it. BTW, how is chimp going to pay for his oil wars now?

Answer 10

they just don't get it, black-market smokes are the future and this will make less taxes from smokers, DER?