1.   By jacking up the price of the cheapest disposal route, a landfill tax makes other options look more attractive.

2.   And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture.

3.   And he proposed eliminating the age requirement for homeowners who want to take the one-time exemption to the capital gains tax on profits made from a home sale.

4.   A consumption tax makes good fiscal sense, too.

5.   A payroll tax makes sense, said Tri-Met spokesman Steve Johnson, because public transit helps workers get to jobs.

6.   A tax would make soybeans more expensive and keep them at home for domestic crushers to turn into oil and meal.

7.   All liquor stores are state-owned, and giant taxes make private drinking expensive.

8.   GSV uses malt liquor because lower taxes make it the cheapest source of alcohol.

9.   If Putin has the will, a flat tax makes a crackdown feasible.

10.   If there is no public transport available, then gas taxes make people poorer without changing their behavior.