The ability to tax such new revenue streams is enticing for state and city officials dealing with post-pandemic economic upheaval, said Richard C. Auxier, principle policy associate with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a think tank.

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    4 months ago

    Of all the treat defenders I’ve had to argue with over time, few are worse than the smoking apologists.

    Offline, in person, being told that I can’t “objectively prove” that any particular cigarette will cause lung cancer to a clearly addicted but in denial smoking enjoyer was always frustrating.

    One such person that I knew for decades died of lung cancer. In his mid-late thirties. And months before that, his doctor told him he had the overall vitals of a eighty year old man and to please stop smoking. He laughed it off, right in front of me… with a horridly rattly cough. desolate