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On the recordSeptember 22, 2016
If there is something that you don't like as a policymaker, cigarettes, let's say, and you tax it, you will get less people to buy cigarettes, correct?
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Ron DeSantis
Republican · Florida

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DeSantis discusses the economic principle of taxation affecting behavior.

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