Since our government seems hellbent on raising taxes for whatever reason and in doing so passing a judgement off onto a small minority of the community, I have come to conclude that these "Sin Taxes" can be of great value to super moralist people such as myself.
Since "Sin Taxes" are based on one person's judgement of another person's actions and because these taxes have the intent of reducing behaviour by a specific section of the population, I have decided that from now on I will support a "Sin Tax" on abortion, since I don't think people should have abortions. It's a fantastic idea, first of all, we can reduce the ridiculous amount of abortions across the United States by implementing a "Sin Tax" on abortion. We can allocate the money to our children by using that money to pay teachers better, thus providing a better education for the children.
Certainly pro-choicers as well as pro-lifers can see the benefit of it and since most people will never have to have an abortion, this should easily pass. Even most pro-choicers I know consider abortion wrong, but who are they to tell a woman what she can do with her body?
Since "Sin Taxes" do not tell people what they can do with their body, then a "Sin Tax" on abortion would be perfectly acceptable. Since this "Sin Tax" on abortion would benefit the children, only an extremist would oppose this idea. Our children are just to important for extremist to oppose a "Sin Tax" on abortion.
Now, some of you may be concerned how this will affect the poor. Don't worry your pretty little heads off, we'll just make the doctors who perform this responsible for paying the taxes. That makes this tax even better because only the rich will pay this tax. We could make them pay $250 per abortion performed, quickly raising enough money to pay our teachers what they are worth. This won't affect a woman getting an abortion because she won't have to pay the tax.
And for you pro-choicers out there, when you hear a pro-lifer make the charge that abortion is murder, you can then retort, "Those fetuses died for a good cause."
"Sin Taxes" can also be applied to the music industry, and we could use the PMRC as the final arbitrator for which music is sinful. The PMRC was an organization founded by the wife of Al Gore and other wives of Senator. Since the majority of people don't listen to "Sin Music" then this is a tax that can also pass without much opposition, and since it will be for our children, then it must be passed.
Oh, food is sinful. If you eat too much or eat fast food, you too ought to pay a "Sin Tax". Ah, there is no end to this ingenious way of taxing people.
Sin Taxes, you got to love them.
