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originally posted by: strongfp
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: strongfp
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: FyreByrd
Nobody killed whole families while driving while drinking a soda either.
Excessive taxation no matter on what...is the very reason that spawned our revolution. King Goerge needed to pay for his war with France and taxed the colonists more and more.
Taxing like this is ridiculous and unfair
And Sugary drinks have slowly and painfully killed or made millions of peoples lives ruined.
Honestly, people know alcohol has it's risks, those who abuse feel the punishment rather quickly, socially and physically.
But when people think that drinking three cans of pepsi a day is OK with other random sugary junk throughout the day in 'healthy' foods, it all adds up quickly. And when it's available to children as well.
I have a personal experience with sugary drinks, and it was because I was just naive and ignorant to it's terrible nutrition.
Oh an people spend too much time on personal devices and get unhealthy, so we should tax them until they are unaffordable.
And people get hurt playing baseball, so tax bats and balls through the roof.
And what about Gluten? My god Gluten! Please someone tax gluten out of existence!
They do tax cell phones, hence why some smart phones are more expensive than others, it's a luxury.
But, you are comparing apples to oranges, or rather, apples to an electronics, and sports here. Much different.
How does that even relate to something that people can get addicted to by just consuming one or two on a daily basis?
They tax alcohol and tobacco heavily, why is highly caffeinated and sugary drinks any different?
There was even an epidemic with mountain dew in the states. ABC News Mountain Dew mouth.
And populations were targeted around the world with advertising and rise in diabetes begins. There's a direct correlation to sugary drinks and long term health issues. Education works, but wanna know how our petty minds work, just put a larger dollar sign on it and people will start taking it more seriously.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Grambler
What do you mean 'you'? Are you insinuating that because when I was 14 and I didn't understand the negative effects of sugar on my body I am now an expert and I am an isolated case?
Because, I can assure you, I am not. Far from it.
I can scrounge up dozens of articles, documentaries, studies, and social experiments about how sugar is so integrated into our daily lives it does need some sort of regulation.
Why not start with the largest offenders, taxing the one thing people honestly should not be consuming on a daily basis, soda beverages.
I understand where you are coming from. I really do, but the history of the food and beverage industry has been shown to be quite cut throat, they literally took advertising from the old tobacco campaigns and just replaced it with a can of coke.
I am surprised you are upset over paying a small tax. Do you drink it so often it will hurt your wallet?
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: strongfp
So taxing the ignorant to excess is the answer?
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Grambler
You're going a little overboard here.
And I'm not going to get into the mind of a 13 - 14 year old, it was over a few years of over indulging without my parents knowing I didn't know. They didn't teach that your liver enzymes can get all screwed up from sugar, or how insulin works, plus what 12 year old would care about that?
But let me guess you had six kids a full time job and a mortgage at like 18 or something?
You gotta start thinking rationally here.
When there is strong evidence that sugar has the same effects on the body and brain as alcohol and it's just as dangerous as tobacco, don't you think something is a little off here?
Should they start letting Marlboro advertise cigarettes to kids again? Or that's it's good for You?
And this isn't am attempt to change a lifestyle. Because of it really was, them pretty much everything between the fresh produce and meat sections of grocery stores should be taxed as well.