Why would a system that rewards virtue and punishes sin be so frustratingly unreliable?
Ironically, some sin taxes are so successful at decreasing the targeted behavior that they may raise little money.
For them, living in sin is not so much a slight to married life as an important step in that direction.
But, by the time it was released, there was so much talk of sin that nobody was interested in substance.
In any event the sin in corporate pay is not so much its magnitude as the fact that it is often completely decoupled from performance, as Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk has documented.
It is difficult to separate out fact from fiction, sin from expiation, punishment from reward when we are so muddled about the facts and so ready to believe almost anything.
But as Wasps began to find their momentum, so Newcastle started to slip off tackles while the sin-binning of Oakes for a stamp on Lawrence Dallaglio's ankle did not help their cause.
In both games so far, South African players have had players sin-binned for infringements at the breakdown, while New Zealand captain Richie McCaw has been penalised repeatedly and cautioned for infringements at the breakdown, but allowed to remain on the field.
The tax was put into place not so much as a revenue raiser but as a proper sin tax.
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After getting the nod to come off the bench with 20 minutes to go, Tom Jarvis (who I was to replace) went and got himself sin-binned which halved the time left for me to make my glorious comeback so thanks Tom!
I've just spoken to the match commissioner and I've got it from five or six players that's not happened so obviously we'll be contesting both and we'll be contesting looking at the sin-bins as well.
They should dress modestly "so that our clients are not forced to not look at the prosecution for fear of committing a sin under their faith, " Ms. Bormann said.
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