SIN TAX (HOUSE BILL 5727) SHOULD BE LAGALIZED IN THE REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES (+) In partial fulfillment of the requirements Of the subject PHIN11A Submitted by: Ceejay Martinez Abby Padua Merene‚ Myka Kim Villareal‚ Peter James On October 3‚ 2012 To: Ms. Violeta Tabin PREMISES 1. Smoking cigars and drinking liquors are bad to health. 2. Number of accidents will be lessen. 3. Lessen the number of users. 4. It may cause air pollution. 5. It may stop the production of cigars and liquors
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Sin Tax Bill (For the Government) OVERALL SUMMARY: According to James Sadowsky‚ author of The Economics of Sin Taxes‚ taxes imposed on products seen as vices such as alcoholic liquors and tobaccos are called sin tax. Aside from the commodities being objects of disapproval‚ even their consumers accept such taxes because they seem to hit two birds in one stone. First‚ they raise revenues and second‚ they made vices expensive. House Bill 5727 or also known as the Sin Tax Bill aims to reform the
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Youth and Sexual sin By BIB 441 Counseling and Youth July 4‚ 2011 Introduction It used to be that most parents didn’t worry that their children would fall into sexual temptation until after they were old enough to drive. I remember when I was a teenager myself. We did discuss sex and sexuality but it never crossed our minds to have sex before getting married. I remember one of our neighbors who got pregnant a couple of
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The Unforgivable Sin What is unforgivable sin? Jesus gives an answer to this question in Mathew 12 and Mark 3. The Pharisees claimed that Jesus cast out demons by the power of Beelzebul‚ the ruler of demons. He knew what they were thinking and for that reason‚ he stated the unforgivable sin as that of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. “For this reason I tell you‚ people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy‚ but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven” (Mathew 12:31). The Pharisees
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One of those issues is the topic of sin. Throughout the story the main protagonists‚ excluding Pearl‚ struggle with their past sins and how they deal with it. One line spoken by the narrator about Dimmesdale’s sin‚ “This had been a sin of passion‚ not of principle‚ nor even purpose” (187) suggests that there are different types of sins. In this case sins of love or passion versus sins of hate or principle. Hawthorne deals with sins of love or passion as well as sins of hate with different characters
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Sin and Salvation Sin and Salvation are two of the most crucial concepts in Christianity. They are the basis for the current purpose of man’s existence and define the future of God’s creation. Sin is a curse that all descendants of Adam are cursed with due to his disobedience of God. The consequences of his sin is that all of humanity is separated from God and damned to eternal Hell. This‚ however‚ is not the full story. When Adam first sinned‚ God promised a savior that would right the wrong
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Each character in The Scarlet Letter has their own sin and they deal with it in different ways. The most obvious of these characters is Hester. Hester’s sin of adultery was the basis for the first half of the story. Hester was constantly burdened made aware of her sin with the scarlet letter attached to her breast‚ but she was able to deal with her sin in a different way. “Elsewhere the token of sin‚ it was the taper of the sick chamber. It had even thrown its gleam‚ in the sufferer’s bard extremity
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the Philippine government pass a law called the “Sin Tax Bill”. The President said that this law was signed because they thought it serves as an early “Christmas gift” to millions of Filipino’s who will be discouraged from smoking and drinking. But is the Sin Tax Bill on tobacco will be beneficial or unprofitable? Sin Tax Bill aims to lower the number of consumers in terms of smoking and drinking. But what is Sin tax? Sin tax is a kind of sumptuary tax. A tax specifically
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Kite Runner Essay ‘The only way to escape the sins of the past is to confront them’. Is this true in The Kite Runner? In the novel ‘The Kite Runner’‚ it is put forward that the only way to escape the sins of the past is to confront them. This can be seen through key characters in the story‚ such as Amir‚ Baba and Soraya. Amir had sinned when he was a boy with his best friend Hassan‚ which haunts his from that day forward. Futhermore‚ Baba is seen trying to repay the damage that he believed
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Judaism’s Rejection of the Original Sin In the bible‚ the story of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis serves as scriptural evidence of humankind’s first transgression of God’s command resulting in the expulsion from paradise1. Christians claim that humans are tainted from the fall and many scholars reinforce the idea of a recovery narrative‚ which depicts the bible as following a pattern of decline and recovery‚ thereby reinforcing the belief that something was once lost and must be recovered
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