Harry Guerrilla
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Absolutely.
We need cigerrette style taxes on:
Anything with HFCS in it
All red meats
All shellfish
All pastries
Any food that is fried
Any fruit juices including any additives
Anything containing alcohol
Any bread outside of 100% whole wheat
Eggs
Pork
Coffee
Actually go with any food containing additional sugar or contains any caffine.
I mean, they all are bad for you in some way shape or form. Everything that isn't a vegetable (except for potatoes, we can tax those, they're extremely high stachy that leads to obesity) or a fruit should be taxed on a similar rate to cigerettes. I mean, its for your own good
I hope so cuz those are worse.
You do realize the American Revolution was started by a tax on tea right? Why would we want to go back to arbitrary and excessive taxation like that again? I say anyone in government that wants more taxes for these types of reasons should be tarred and feathered in classic fashion.
I don't see how they are "worse" though.
lol, the other day I bought 'sugar free' apple juice and couldn't help but laugh at the label that said sugar... 48g
What will the left want to tax next? The air we breathe?
I drink soda daily and I'm fine with a 3 cent tax. I would disagree that it will have much of a health impact because the tax alone won't deter folks from drinking it. IMO.
Actually it did, but you are chosing not to believe it. It was explained in a simple context without going into a detailed scientific explanation.That article didn't explain why it was "worse". I stand by what I say, an excess of anything is bad.
That sounds like a bit of a strawman to me.Water is poison to the human body.
While you might not like it, it doesn't change the fact that people could, and do, get the wrong impression that drinking diet soda will contribute to weight loss.I do like what the article said about don't drink diet soda because you think you will lose weight drinking it.
Sounds reasonable to me. A high sodium intake isn't healthy.Although you might think that you will lose a whole lot of weight through drinking diet soda, the truth is that you could end up feeling as though you are losing less weight with regular soda because of the amount of water weight that you could end up gaining from diet soda.
Diet soda contains Aspartame, which is highly unhealthy for your body- in more ways than one. If you did not already know, ten percent of Aspartame consists of methanol, also known as wood alcohol, which is an extremely deadly poison
You can if you manage your calorie intake correctly.You cannot possibly lose weight, effectively, without exercising..
First we heard about the talk of taxes on elective plastic surgery and Botox and now something I predicted many years ago it coming to light. Taxing soda to ostensibly combat obesity. I don't believe it for one minute. I believe there is an all out push to gain more, and more control over the daily lives of Americans and use any means available to achieve that end.
You can if you manage your calorie intake correctly.
Leading to excessive taxation, such as a specific tax on tea, what part of that don't you understand?No, that was taxation without representation issues. In other words, those people could not elect the people that passed the tea tax.
I hope so cuz those are worse.
Instead of attempting all this social engineering with higher taxes on cigarettes, fast food, sodas and so on, why don't we just remove the barriers employer's, insurers, and for that matter medicare faces to actually pricing coverage based on the risks associated with ones life choices.
For example, instead of taxing sodas more, why not just allow employers to charge obese employees more for their health coverage? Right now, you can be a 300 pound smoker and pay the same rate for your healthcare through your employer as a fit employee that exercises daily. In effect, your poor life choices are simply subsidized by them. The same is true with Medicare. If your overweight or a smoker, statistically your going to cost to the system far more in the future than a non-smoker and fit individual, so why not increase their payroll taxes to pay for the costs of their lifestyle choices rather than passing them on to others that made better life choices.
It seems to me that makes a lot better sense and would be a lot more effective than all these social experiments in the form of "sin taxes" we have now are.
CDC Chief: Soda Tax Could Combat Obesity - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
To paraphrase Betti Davis In All About Eve a (1950) movie. "Fasten your seatbelts it's going to be a bumpy ride."
First we heard about the talk of taxes on elective plastic surgery and Botox and now something I predicted many years ago it coming to light. Taxing soda to ostensibly combat obesity. I don't believe it for one minute. I believe there is an all out push to gain more, and more control over the daily lives of
Americans and use any means available to achieve that end.
This will continue and reach into the grocery store and attempt to control through taxes at first your purchases of any item determined by the NANNY state mentality to be detrimental to your health. Fatty foods, those that contain nitrates such as Bacon & Wieners which re under attack already are going to serve as the tip of the iceberg.
I can't tell you everything I believe or I run the risk of having this topic hidden as a conspiracy theory. All I am doing is reporting to the readers herein that taxes being used for more than just raising funds is a reality and is expanding for your own good because you cannot make intelligent decisions on your own.
By paying attention to this expansion we only remain vigilante as we were told we must. As Sgt. Friday would say: Just the facts Ma'am.
Absolutely.
We need cigerrette style taxes on:
Anything with HFCS in it
All red meats
All shellfish
All pastries
Any food that is fried
Any fruit juices including any additives
Anything containing alcohol
Any bread outside of 100% whole wheat
Eggs
Pork
Coffee
Actually go with any food containing additional sugar or contains any caffine.
I mean, they all are bad for you in some way shape or form. Everything that isn't a vegetable (except for potatoes, we can tax those, they're extremely high stachy that leads to obesity) or a fruit should be taxed on a similar rate to cigerettes. I mean, its for your own good
I fully support the tax.
Instead of attempting all this social engineering with higher taxes on cigarettes, fast food, sodas and so on, why don't we just remove the barriers employer's, insurers, and for that matter medicare faces to actually pricing coverage based on the risks associated with ones life choices.
For example, instead of taxing sodas more, why not just allow employers to charge obese employees more for their health coverage? Right now, you can be a 300 pound smoker and pay the same rate for your healthcare through your employer as a fit employee that exercises daily. In effect, your poor life choices are simply subsidized by them. The same is true with Medicare. If your overweight or a smoker, statistically your going to cost to the system far more in the future than a non-smoker and fit individual, so why not increase their payroll taxes to pay for the costs of their lifestyle choices rather than passing them on to others that made better life choices.
It seems to me that makes a lot better sense and would be a lot more effective than all these social experiments in the form of "sin taxes" we have now are.
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