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Soda tax: What do you think about it?
Javier:
My main problem with this is that these taxes will mainly fuck with the lower-income families. According to a few studies, an increase of 10% of with "soft drinks" leads to a 7-8% decrease in consumption. Since this could be a unique tax, we don't know the actual effects of what a soda tax will do, so nobody is sureif it even decreases consumption.
There still has to be a way to tackle obesity because we don't live in a world where the decisions of one person do not have an effect on everybody else. If we take the attitude of saying, "look your ass is obese, that's not my problem" then it probably would have taken longer for other issues safer drinking water, seatbelts, and a bunch other things people take for granted in the United States. We didn't have that attitude though, because we all drink water, and we all drive cars.
you gon always be my latin queen bitch:
if they get fed and when they do, its got to be worse than prison food...see what a kid does then when he dont have 3 fuckin sodas to have every day
kids be walkin around havin sodas as if its the thing to do...and when they dont get it.....they start throwin the game controller, remote controller, school books at their moms
--- Quote from: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on March 10, 2010, 06:44:17 PM ---they should take all that money and give every fat person in america that lap band shit....that or send em to africa and feed em for 32 cents a month.
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Bananas:
--- Quote from: Javier on March 10, 2010, 08:54:09 PM ---My main problem with this is that these taxes will mainly fuck with the lower-income families. According to a few studies, an increase of 10% of with "soft drinks" leads to a 7-8% decrease in consumption. Since this could be a unique tax, we don't know the actual effects of what a soda tax will do, so nobody is sureif it even decreases consumption.
There still has to be a way to tackle obesity because we don't live in a world where the decisions of one person do not have an effect on everybody else. If we take the attitude of saying, "look your ass is obese, that's not my problem" then it probably would have taken longer for other issues safer drinking water, seatbelts, and a bunch other things people take for granted in the United States. We didn't have that attitude though, because we all drink water, and we all drive cars.
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That's a good point. I never looked at it that way.
However, at the end of the day, in my opinion, if you're over 18 or the age where you're looking after every penny, chances are you're not a a soda drinker, if you are (chances are) you are willing to pay whatever for it. Laziness that exists all around the board should be taxed. (again, in my opinion)
7even:
This is madness. If you tax someone because his way of living is in some indirect way hurting society, you might as well tax beautiful girls who don't give blowjobs and pussy to everybody cause those people who don't get pussy might get mad and/or depressed and start massacres or become nursing cases who leech off the health care system and what not.
you gon always be my latin queen bitch:
lol ^^^
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