Should sugary drinks and soda be taxed?

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

[Goldwater]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

Australia has a tax on homosexuality?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

The government needs to work to make healthy food cost less than unhealthy food.

This, but the best way to do this is through better agricultural policy rather than de facto regressive sumptuary taxes.

[Kingpoleon]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

Australia has a tax on homosexuality?

No, it's an anti-tax. Every homosexual in Australia is paid $1,000,000 annually - that's about $750,000 in U. S. dollars according to the article I read.

[Blair]

I'm actually not a fan of it; I know there's an argument about using taxation to change lifestyle habits, but I feel that, in the UK you're already paying 20% on it through VAT.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

If implemented nationwide I would worry they'd change the sodas to be made with sugar alcohols that can be awful on the digestive system.  There's too much of that going on already. 

[BuckeyeNut]

Of course. It's time for the poor to pay their fair share.

I am very sympathetic to this argument. I'd rather we cut corn subsidies and shift them to things like carrots and apples. Barring that, though, I don't know what else is to be done. People seem to be blind to the obesity epidemic, which is right up there with heroin, honestly, and the calories in drinks.

[politicallefty]

I'm undecided on the subject, but if there is to be a tax on sugary drinks, it shouldn't apply to artificial sweeteners and it should be based on the amount of sugar in the drink. The taxes I've seen proposed tax per ounce regardless of amount of sugar or even it's an artificial sweetener. If we're looking at health issues, I'd once again have to point the finger at HFCS, something that didn't appear in our food or drinks until about the mid-1980s.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Obviously. Anyone who desires a truly strong nation knows that we cannot afford empty calories.

[Kingpoleon]

Obviously. Anyone who desires a truly strong nation knows that we cannot afford empty calories.

Indeed! We are becoming a nation of weak Athenians rather than strong Spartans!

[dead0man]

holy hell, when did the left fall in love with regressive taxes?  You hate free speech and love war, think violence is perfectly acceptable tool to use on someone who disagrees with you, you keep coming up with new ways to tax poor people....ugggg...and the right loves Russia and hates free markets....wtf is wrong with you people?

[Goldwater]

holy hell, when did the left fall in love with regressive taxes?  You hate free speech and love war, think violence is perfectly acceptable tool to use on someone who disagrees with you, you keep coming up with new ways to tax poor people....ugggg...and the right loves Russia and hates free markets....wtf is wrong with you people?

The more time passes, the increasingly archaic I start to realize my political views actually are. Assuming they were ever actually popular, that is.

[Pyro]

Taxes should not be used as a tool to penalize the poor for enjoying unhealthy food/drink.

If our objective is building the foundation of a healthier society, it may be a smarter idea to enforce stronger food safety standards/regulations, or draft subsidies for real organic foods, and most importantly take a sword to those corps like Coca Cola and McDonalds which thrive on enforcing an unhealthy planet for the purpose of profit.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

Australia has a tax on homosexuality?

No, it's an anti-tax. Every homosexual in Australia is paid $1,000,000 annually - that's about $750,000 in U. S. dollars according to the article I read.

Fags = cigarettes, my bad.

[The_Doctor]

Yes as long as we cut taxes elsewhere. There should be a revenue neutral sugar tax. If we must keep Medicare and Medicaid; then tax sugar and use the funds to pay for society's inevitable obesity related diseases and them clogging up Medicare and Medicaid.

If we didn't have these government programs, then no. Also no soda for food stamp recipients.

[Goldwater]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

Australia has a tax on homosexuality?

No, it's an anti-tax. Every homosexual in Australia is paid $1,000,000 annually - that's about $750,000 in U. S. dollars according to the article I read.

Fags = cigarettes, my bad.

Yeah, I had heard that term before. It was a joke.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Where does the Starbucks unicorn drink fall on the taxation spectrum?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Where does the Starbucks unicorn drink fall on the taxation spectrum?

A million percent.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

No, and cut the taxes on fags and alcohol as well.

Australia has a tax on homosexuality?

No, it's an anti-tax. Every homosexual in Australia is paid $1,000,000 annually - that's about $750,000 in U. S. dollars according to the article I read.

Fags = cigarettes, my bad.

Yeah, I had heard that term before. It was a joke.

My bad