Posted on 08/31/2016 3:19:29 PM PDT by upchuck
What would you do to avoid paying more taxes? Legally, that is.
That question is facing soft drink manufacturers the world over -- most recently in the UK -- and will eventually become a subject for many food producers and providers as governments realize the potential to use taxes to regulate what companies put in their products. Today, nations' introduction of taxes and levies are forcing companies producing sugar-sweetened beverages and soft drinks to reconsider their formulas or the quantity of their servings, all with a focus on one particular poison: sugar.
There can be as much as 33 to 35 grams of sugar in a can of soda, taking a child over their daily recommended allowance in both the UK and US with just one drink serving. Consuming these drinks has been linked to obesity and associated conditions such as type 2 diabetes. Controlling it at the state level is a way to control reduce today's burden of obesity, among both adults and children.
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The nanny state speaks.
I don't think sugar is the culprit. Fat isn't the culprit either.
Sugar is converted into carbohydrates in the body.
Carbohydrates are the problem.
My short answer to the headline’s question: No.
That’s not the purpose...it is to suck more $ out of people while purporting to be compassionate. Lie lie lie.
Cigarette tax? Alcohol tax? Yeah, that stopped things.
Same as licensing automobile drivers has eliminated bad driving.
No. It’s not the government’s business to nosey into what people are eating. If they can’t stop jihadi terrorists from murdering our own citizens, why should I give a damn about what they think?
And I don’t want to hear from the usual health-freaks who lurk on FR.
They never want a sin tax high enough for people to stop sinning. Then the revenue would drop. Can’t have that.
I would agree. I would say obesity is more linked to the overconsumption of foods such as pizza, fried chicken, pasta and anything Mexican!
No, but it get more Obese People on the Welfare rolls.
Same as licensing automobile drivers has eliminated bad driving.
Gun law and taxes have not stopped the violence in Chicago so the answer is no.
There is not a one-size-fits-all diet for humans. Sugar could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn’t solve the problem
A low-carb diet would kill me. I have hyperthyroidism and can’t afford to lose any weight. Need carbs to stay upright, kind of like marathoners who use carbs before the big run.
About as much as a law can stop drug use and addiction.
A sugar tax can increase the amount of $$$ that Rat politicians can use to buy votes.Getting people off their their hindquarters can fight obesity.
Sugar is not “converted” into carbohydrates, sugar IS a carbohydrate, a simple carbohydrate which gets rapidly absorbed in the body causing an increase in the release of insulin which stores any excess of carbohydrate in the liver and ultimately converts it to fat on the body.
But even worse than sugar is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which is 55% fructose(really bad stuff) and 45% sucrose (table sugar). Most naturally sweetened soda sold in the US is sweetened with HFCS.
That is not even the right question.
Should a sugar tax be used to stop obesity? Even if it would work, the answer is “no”. That is, like so much of what liberals want to do, well outside the proper scope of government power.
No. Does a tobacco tax stop people from smoking? And no, carbohydrates are not the problem either. The problem is human nature for one, and a poor genetic make-up.
No, lack of exercise.
And the current administration would love for the white workers in America to die off prematurely so that they can...what? Turn into Venezuela?
Socialists don’t understand long-term consequences, lol!
If cigarette taxes control smoking then, sure, a tax on sugar will control sugar consumption.
Sugar already has a government controlled, artificially very high price. That has not stopped obesity.
So color me skeptical. This is just government wanting more money under the guise of “helping people”.
The reason people are fat today is because they sit and stare at TVs or their phones. No one MOVES anymore. We had tons of fast food places growing up - Foster’s Freeze and McDonalds and Burger King - and we weren’t fat. Why? Because we walked and ran and MOVED. Played outside until the dinner bell rang.
Subsidize sugar, then tax it. What a concept.
Yes, refined sugar feeds inflammatory diseases, including cancer.
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