{"id":225,"date":"2003-09-02T23:20:37","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T03:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/09\/02\/latte-tax\/"},"modified":"2003-09-02T23:20:37","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T03:20:37","slug":"latte-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2003\/09\/02\/latte-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Latte Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a99'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>If I see the the logic in this <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/02\/national\/02ESPR.html\">tax propsal<\/A> (a $0.10 tax on each beverage containing a shot of expresso), why does it provoke a feeling of revulsion from me?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Perhaps I feel that individual items are usually taxed only if they fall into the sin tax category, such as alcohol and tobacco.&nbsp; The espresso tax seems to tell the drinker:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>By drinking this latte, you are not spending your money wisely.&nbsp; You are a spendthrift, and this beverage represents your luxury spending.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I see the the logic in this tax propsal (a $0.10 tax on each beverage containing a shot of expresso), why does it provoke a feeling of revulsion from me? Perhaps I feel that individual items are usually taxed only if they fall into the sin tax category, such as alcohol and tobacco.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}