Taxing Alcohol
Alcohol is said to impose harms, including healthcare costs and impaired driving, that warrant an alcoholic beverage tax. However, research shows that light and moderate alcohol consumption is beneficial to health. Furthermore, the burden tied to heavy dr
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Taxing Sin
Michael Thom
Taxing Sin
Michael Thom Sol Price School of Public Policy University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Acknowledgments
Bringing this book to print was a pain in the you-know-what. There is no other way to describe it. After an editor at my initial publisher went radio silent, I sent my proposal off to several others. Some editors responded and offered helpful feedback, but not an offer to publish. It was frustrating, to say the least. Then, a ray of hope. An editor at a large publisher expressed interest in the project and said he would write more in a day or two. He never did. I followed up, but to no avail. That editor ghosted me. Months later, another ray of hope. An editor at a different academic press said he was interested. I’ll respond after Thanksgiving, he wrote. He did not, so I followed up. I’ll get a contract to you Monday, he replied. Monday came and went. So did Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Then, the Monday after that, a promise to have the contract to me “by tomorrow.” That deadline came and went. No contract. No explanation. I inquired but received no response. That editor ghosted me, too. Neither ghost was not dead, of course. Each one was alive and more than well enough to post on Twitter. (Yes, I checked.) That is why I have to offer my deepest gratitude and thanks to Nick Barclay, my exceedingly
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