On: How Cigarettes Tax the Poor

[wrsh07]

I think Planet Money talked about how you could just give the taxes back to poor people as a tax refund, and it would still have the same positive effect without being a regressive tax.

I don't think it was this article, but it's something like this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/15/174358638/a-sur...

[walshemj → wrsh07]

Problem is that you are subsidizing the bad employers which is where we are in the UK.

I pay taxes to subsidize the training of NHS Doctors and Nurses not flipping Baristas and other Mc Jobs.