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34. Should We Have to Pay for Our Sins?

Apr 22, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
Sen Taxes
02:29 • 5min
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3
Is There a Way to Get People to Switch to a Dirtier Cigarette?
07:48 • 5min
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E B Motors - Part 1
12:56 • 2min
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5
Taxes on Sugary Beverages
14:51 • 2min
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Sugary Drink Taxes and the Cost to the Health Cure System
16:33 • 2min
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Why Soda Taxes Aren't Regressive
18:24 • 5min
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Are We Making Decisions Freely?
23:45 • 4min
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Taxes on alcohol and tobacco promise to make people healthier and raise public funds. But can they backfire? Bapu Jena looks at the complicated economics of sin taxes.

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