aGENT Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Someone in England had the same idea a few hundred years ago but only with tea. How did that work out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 In fairness, that wasn't a health issue. And if that graphic you posted is accurate, it looks like we could make a nice size dent in the issue by simply taxing "soft drinks" and "sugars/candy" and go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Not sure what "go from there" means. Do we go after salty foods next? How about fatty foods? Do we fine people for laying out in the sun too long and exposing themselves to skin cancer? You simply can't tax people for being foolish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 that would only work if the items were prepackaged bottles/cans like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or the Sbux Frappucinos. For drinks that a barista makes, it gets much more complicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 The components that contain the sugar would be taxed before they even made it into the drink. How Starbucks wants to pass that on to the consumer is their business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Bingo. Tax the living @#$% out of HFCS, natural sugar gets taxed moderately and natural fruit etc sugars get a low tax rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Or just tax sugar period. X amount per gram of sucrose/fructose. Any processed food already knows how many grams of sugar is in it simply from the nutritional information. Any unprocessed food, like an apple or orange or corn, which will have sugar in it, is fine. But you so much as squeeze it into juice, well, pay the tax man. No need to micro-manage it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I look down upon adults who drink soda anyways. They can all die of diabetes. It's not the governments business to police stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroSen Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Personally I have no problem with limiting setting around pop/soda, the stuff is poison, and if we can set legal limits around marijuana and alcohol, we should be able to on pop as well. Coke and Pepsi, like big Tobacco, knows what their stuff does to people, and yet they still deny and lobby government with their own agenda. I do also agree with taxing, especially in Canada where taxpayers pay for health care. If you are going to drink those drinks, you pay, and the government (hopefully lol) puts it toward health care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizeman Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I have no problem at all with the gov trying to crack down on obesity . I just dont understand the funky way that law would have worked. Only certain containers sold a certain way are banned? Why not make a uniform law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 I have no problem at all with the gov trying to crack down on obesity . I just dont understand the funky way that law would have worked. Only certain containers sold a certain way are banned? Why not make a uniform law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 My mom brought boxed croutons over for salad for dinner last night (I made pasta)... the croutons have high fructose corn syrup in them... CROUTONS DO NOT NEED HFCS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 My mom brought boxed croutons over for salad for dinner last night (I made pasta)... the croutons have high fructose corn syrup in them... CROUTONS DO NOT NEED HFCS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Make your own croutons! I swear the interweb has recipes for everything these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 We do. Just commenting that it's sad that the manufacturer feels the need to pile in HFCS, soy lecithin etc in to freaking croutons. It's seasoned stale bread for jebus' sake! Unfortunately my parents (and vast swaths of the general public) are not as well educated on processed "groceries" as my wife an I are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I assume it is sprayed on to give a more "browned" look as the sugar caramelizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Except that it's not just sugar that makes people fat....excess consumption of any food makes you fat. And not everyone who drinks a soda everyday gets fat either. If you exercise enough, you can afford to drink daily sodas. Everyone has different calorie needs. The only fair thing to do would be to actually tax people for being fat. That's not politically correct, so the answer becomes collective punishment. This law suffers from both overbredth and inability to address the actual issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Except that it's not just sugar that makes people fat....excess consumption of any food makes you fat. And not everyone who drinks a soda everyday gets fat either. If you exercise enough, you can afford to drink daily sodas. Everyone has different calorie needs. The only fair thing to do would be to actually tax people for being fat. That's not politically correct, so the answer becomes collective punishment. This law suffers from both overbredth and inability to address the actual issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 A person drinking one can of pop a day and exercising isn't the problem. Nor would that person be paying an abundant amount more in tax if we taxed sugar. It's the millions of lard asses sitting on their couch drinking a 2L a day that are the issue. I don't know how you would begin to tax sitting on a couch but I do know how you could easily tax sugar content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 But you're still proposing taxing every can of pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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