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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

The government does this all the time. How do you make people stop smoking?

Well, you tax or fine the certain action so much that eventually the people decide it isn’t worth partaking in a particular activity.


20 posted on 06/04/2019 12:31:06 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

Or sometimes you can give them incentives, like tax breaks.


21 posted on 06/04/2019 12:35:12 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

Or they get whatever by means of bypassing govt penalites and punishments.


24 posted on 06/04/2019 12:49:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: skinndogNN

It’s like raising children. The benefit of compliant behavior has to be more desirable than the consequence of non-compliant behavior.


38 posted on 06/04/2019 1:25:46 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (A law means nothing if it isnÂ’t followed.)
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