There are a number of taxes that could be considered in terms of where you want to get your revenue that may have a lesser economic impact. Governments have to deal with this. Back in the late 1980s and 1990s the government had to deal with a fiscal situation, and they had to find a balance between what to do on the revenue side and what to do on the expenditure side.
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