1.   Brewers have complained that escalating beer taxes have caused consumers to travel across the English Channel to France to stock up on beer, costing them market share.

2.   Critics also charge that the tax has caused economic hardship at some U.S. ports, particularly those close to U.S. borders.

3.   If a tax caused a drastic reduction in the use of coal, the chief culprit in global warming, coal miners will lose their jobs.

4.   In fact, Stegman said, for all the taxpayer angst the capital gains tax causes, it may not even be worth the revenue it generates.

5.   Lisa Noble, spokeswoman for the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, said the stadium tax should cause no harm to local businesses.

6.   On the matter of interest rates, many economists believe that lowering taxes would actually cause rates to rise.

7.   The consumption tax also has caused homeowners to put off renovating their homes.

8.   The tax could cause capital to flee the country as investors opt for other markets with lower costs.

9.   Visco said that cutting taxes now would cause the deficit to grow by lowering revenue.

10.   However a proposal by the ruling coalition to increase the consumption tax has caused controversy.