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Soda tax: What do you think about it?
Turf Hitta:
--- Quote from: virtuoso on March 10, 2010, 06:31:06 AM ---
It's not retarded and it has little to do with fighting obesity, people can't afford decent foods, so they buy cheap canned stuff which is bulked up with lots of sugar. Yes, soda isn't going to help the situation, but it's far from retarded, people drink lots of it, so it's something else to tax and of course once enough people have bought into that bullshit, then they can tax other items of consumptions in the name of fighting obesity.
War on terrorism is played out
War on climate change is on shaky ground
So now it's the war on obesity
New buzz words, same bullshit, end goal, more extortion
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What they should do is not tax soda, they should drop the prices on healthy shit, not raise the price of soda. Unhealthy foods and drinks are heavily subsidised by the government. if they healthy foods were subsudised instead this stupid ass shit wouldn't even be an issue because the healthy foods would be cheaper than junk food...
.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:
--- Quote from: 7even on March 11, 2010, 04:44:30 AM ---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.
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I vote yes.
Javier:
--- Quote from: 7even on March 11, 2010, 04:44:30 AM ---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.
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I'm not in favor of this particular tax but your comparison is weak. Obesity isn't indirectly hurting society, it's directly hurting it. It's a fact that obese people miss more work which causes the companies to lose money. It's a fact that obese people have a shorter life span. It's a fact that obese people go to the ER more often. It's not an unknown situation, the evidence is there. It isn't a fact that a guy not getting a blow job from a beautiful girl will create some random problem.
Sikotic™:
--- Quote from: Turf Hitta on March 11, 2010, 09:19:29 AM ---
What they should do is not tax soda, they should drop the prices on healthy shit, not raise the price of soda. Unhealthy foods and drinks are heavily subsidised by the government. if they healthy foods were subsudised instead this stupid ass shit wouldn't even be an issue because the healthy foods would be cheaper than junk food...
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Yup, Subsidized because of the cheapness and surplus of corn and corn products (vegetable oil, hugh fructose corn syrup, corn fed cows, etc) in the US. The government doesn't care that it's gonna cost us more when over half of US citizens will be overweight and at risk for diabetes and heart disease because they're making bank at the moment.
Like I said and I'll say it again: if the government was really serious about stopping obesity, they would tax the obese individuals themselves and not everyone including those who live healthy lifestyles and like to indulge in a Coke or a pizza every once in a while.
Tax overweight people by the pound and watch them lose weight.
.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:
--- Quote from: Sikotic on March 11, 2010, 12:03:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Turf Hitta on March 11, 2010, 09:19:29 AM ---
What they should do is not tax soda, they should drop the prices on healthy shit, not raise the price of soda. Unhealthy foods and drinks are heavily subsidised by the government. if they healthy foods were subsudised instead this stupid ass shit wouldn't even be an issue because the healthy foods would be cheaper than junk food...
--- End quote ---
Yup, Subsidized because of the cheapness and surplus of corn and corn products (vegetable oil, hugh fructose corn syrup, corn fed cows, etc) in the US. The government doesn't care that it's gonna cost us more when over half of US citizens will be overweight and at risk for diabetes and heart disease because they're making bank at the moment.
Like I said and I'll say it again: if the government was really serious about stopping obesity, they would tax the obese individuals themselves and not everyone including those who live healthy lifestyles and like to indulge in a Coke or a pizza every once in a while.
Tax overweight people by the pound and watch them lose weight.
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how do u tax overweight people tho? Who is to know what some guy down the street weighs? Or better yet, what their body fat is. They should just make car seats only capable of holding a certain amount of poundage. If youre above that poundage....your ass is walkin. Problem solved.
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