sugar tax?

[holzz]

what do you make of the UK sugar tax coming?

i don't drink much coke so it won't affect me......the only thing i'm sweet for is TS body/cock, not Coke or Pepsi..lol.

[Jericho]

They can't squeeze anymore out of the smokers, they're quitting in droves.
So it's time to tax the kids, chubbies and stoners!

[Laphroaig]

Well Def Leppard are fucked and my fantasies about Taylor Swift will never come true now...



Otherwise, I rarely have fizzy drinks so it won't really affect me.

I doubt it will affect the "fatties" much either. They all go to McDonalds, order a "double cheesburger, large fries and a DIET coke" anyway...

[holzz]

They can't squeeze anymore out of the smokers, they're quitting in droves.
So it's time to tax the kids, chubbies and stoners!

nothing wrong with taxes against smoking......

[Jericho]

nothing wrong with taxes against smoking......

Oh really, do elaborate!

[buttslinger]

This could actually become a future big issue in light of skyrocketing health costs. It goes right to the Heart of Govt putting it's nose in your business, and the responsibilities of being a CITIZEN. Am I my brother's keeper?

[trish]

Am I my brother's keeper?

Seems to me the Lord's implied answer to Cain was, "Yes, you are." For non-believers like me, the answer is: That's contract we make when we choose not to live as hermits and achorites. What this got to do with sugar requires some quantitative justification which will be dependent on geographical, economic, and public health demographics.

If a tax exists to raise money to pay for public services (road repair, health care etc.) people seem more willing to accept it, then if the perception of the tax's purpose is to dissuade people from using the taxed item. The latter is just bad marketing and legislatures should probably stay away from these sorts of rationalizations. Every tax exists to create revenue and all revenue should be directed toward providing a service of one sort or another. One would hope the revenue from a sugar tax goes toward reducing the economic strain on the health care system caused by diabetes and other health issues that arise from the over-consumption of sugar (if such a strain is shown to exist).

[buttslinger]

In the USA all sales tax is done by the State or County, and where I live the tax on groceries is cheaper than the tax on light bulbs.
Politically, Republicans like taxes on gasoline, and sugar, because the worker caste ponies up the dough.
Republicans don't like income tax or capital gains tax. Because that's WAY to much money to give away without a fight.
And there is the real issue that the poor people are the ones buying this shit they sell at the supermarket.


I think there's an Aldous Huxley book about some guy who says fuck it and leaves. Death and Taxes. Live with it. And a Kelloggs Day to you...

Hillary will fix it. You Brits can copy us in 5 years P.S. Taxes are a good thing. You pay your Uncle Sam and Dollar, and rich Daddy Warbucks pays a thousand. But not enough that Keith Richards moves back to England.

[holzz]

Oh really, do elaborate!

smoking isn't healthy.......

[Jericho]

smoking isn't healthy.......

Neither is living...It'll kill you in the end...Lets tax breathing!
(shhhhhhh, not even in jest)!

So, if you're working the health angle, i assume you're in favour of the Sugar Tax?