Fighting Fat by Taxing Soft Drinks

[Dojo]

We had this debate at lunch the other day. I said it was bullshit, and a young liberal thought it was great. She thought it would decrease the amount of soda that peopole drink and help health issues. I said the only thing it will do is take more money out of the hands of lower income people because a 20% increase on a bottle of soda isn't going to make anyone blink, but the habitual drinkers on low budgets will feel that loss of money and have less to pay on other things, which will lead to dependance on more social programs, etc..... She said that she thought it would make a lot of people eat more healthy and be more aware of caloric intake, and that she likes to assume the best about people. Oh to be young againl.

I agree too, just another creative way to tax the poor, like the lottery and cigarette taxes, and it's just the begining.

 

[chudrockz]

Stuff like this makes me so angry! (I know that's not a proper sentence, but I just woke up from a nap.)

Our local supermarket has two liter bottles of Dr. Pepper on sale for forty-five cents. I already snapped up like thirty of them. This makes me want to go out and get sixty more.

 

[chudrockz]

Something else I just thought of: if taxing a thing supposedly produces less of the thing, then I propose an immediate 95% tax on the incomes of everyone working for the government.

 

[TCE]

Something else I just thought of: if taxing a thing supposedly produces less of the thing, then I propose an immediate 95% tax on the incomes of everyone working for the government.

Owned.

 

[Original_Intent]

I'm sorry I am so overweight, I am just trying to make sure I am too big to fail.

Hmm I am sure Pepsico and CocaCola are huge campaign contributors, so if this ever passed I am sure we are then looking at gov't subsidies or bailouts.

 

[KCIndy]

Well....

During Prohibition there were plenty of people doing home brewing and "moonshining" to provide the alcohol the government had made illegal.

In our current "War on Drugs" there are plenty of people running or creating drugs to sell to the market which demands them.

Now that cigarettes are being taxed to an onerous level, people are beginning to smuggle them in from cheaper areas to feed the black market, and others are using "roll your own" machines to turn cheap bulk tobacco into cigarettes for sale.

I wonder who's going to be providing our sugary soda when the government taxes the commercial stuff into oblivion?