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Originally Posted by albertGQ
Ummmm, there already is an alchohol "sin" tax. Look at the difference you pay in alcohol at liquor stores compared to those duty free shops at the airport.
You will notice that the price difference is significant IMO
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duty is different than tax. those products are duty free, not tax free.
duties are imposed to protect domestic products from cheap overseas products.
you can employee 20 people in china for what one Calgarian gets paid in a month. hard to compete with that!