Once again, a cowardly way to raise public money.  Simply pick a 'sin'; tax it from the minority, and pass the benefits onto the general population.    * It's always popular for the majority to tax the minority.   

The tax is clearly going to be highly regressive.  Will 'The Party' bother to review which income brackets are hit hardest by this new tax?   I seriously doubt the subject will even be discussed.   

We have become a nation of special interest/divided.   Our government  tax system has sliced and diced us into a thousand pieces with extra taxation for some, tax relief for others.     The lack of clarity created by an excessively complex tax policy has left many Americans feeling they are treated unequally by their  government.  They would be right.