US government pockets $20.6B in sin taxes in FY’09

[Matt Collins]

U.S. government pockets $20.6B in sin taxes in FY’09


Americans armed themselves to the teeth and paid through the nose to have a smoke, according to a U.S. government report released on Wednesday.


The U.S. federal government collected $20.6 billion in taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and ammunition in fiscal year 2009, up 41 percent from the previous fiscal year, according to the annual report of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/15/u-s-pockets-20-6-bln-in-sin-taxes-in-fy09/#ixzz0tms2jSL9

[Kludge]

Any proper libertarian would pick fruit from public lands to make wine from, grow his own tobacco, and trade in firearms person-to-person.

-William F. Kludge

[lester1/2jr]

comment on the original reuters article points out that whatever you may think of firearms they aren't a sin

[phill4paul]

Things will soon come to a head. Once ObamaCare(tm) kicks in Americans Double Bacon Cheese Burgers and "All you can shovel down your gullet Buffets" will become a "sin" then all hell will break loose.

[ChaosControl]

Why is a firearm and ammunition a sin tax?

[dannno]

Why is a firearm and ammunition a sin tax?

Why is buying wine a sin if Jesus himself drank it :confused: