Regulation madness: Philly ‘soda tax’ causes massive job losses, Democrat finger-pointing

when you give away health care and govt benefits to able bodied people who should be working.

you have to start monitoring costs by taking away freedoms.
hence sugary drink laws and other freedom crushing laws.

leftism is a disease.
 
jem said:
when you give away health care and govt benefits to able bodied people who should be working.

you have to start monitoring costs by taking away freedoms.
hence sugary drink laws and other freedom crushing laws.

leftism is a disease.
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Have some sugar, jem.
 
Frederick Foresight said:
I don't pretend to know the best way to go about it, but I do think sugary drinks should be heavily taxed, with the higher cost being passed on to the consumer, much as it is presently being done with cigarettes, and for the same reason.

Sugary drinks are the leading cause of obesity. Obesity has all manner of health-related risks attached to it, and then there is the considerable attendant cost of dealing with those outcomes.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/

If it was okay to tax the crap out of cigarettes, then I don't see why it shouldn't apply to soft drinks, especially since the intended market is much larger and therefore the potential health and related financial costs that much more damaging.
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Without going into whether I agree with the tax or not, the problem, I believe is that taxing products within a small municipality allows people to simply get the product elsewhere at a lower cost. Business then follows money.

If the Federal government were to put a tax on sugary drinks, you wouldn't be able to go to the next town over to get them cheaper, and everything would be passed through equally.

Of course, what would the Feds then tax next?

However, why not start smart with this, and prevent SNAP dollars from being used in buying unhealthy things like soda? I'll tell you why. Because soft drink giants like Coke and Pepsi, and retail giants like 7-11 lobby like crazy to get their portion of SNAP dollars, that's why.
 
In my opinion, the tax should be put on people who follow unhealthy practices. At the office, people have a wellness test. BP has to be a certain level. Cholesterol, too. BMI a third number. Glucose another. Get 3 of the 4 AND be a non-smoker, and you get the wellness credit to your premium cost that lowers your premiums for the year.

Choose to be unhealthy and get more expensive premiums. But if you can nail all of those metrics, not smoke and drink Pepsi all day every day, then whose business is it?
 
Tsing Tao said:
In my opinion, the tax should be put on people who follow unhealthy practices. At the office, people have a wellness test. BP has to be a certain level. Cholesterol, too. BMI a third number. Glucose another. Get 3 of the 4 AND be a non-smoker, and you get the wellness credit to your premium cost that lowers your premiums for the year.

Choose to be unhealthy and get more expensive premiums. But if you can nail all of those metrics, not smoke and drink Pepsi all day every day, then whose business is it?
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And you think this is more workable?

Some of those readings can have a genetic component. So who cares about the people who didn't win the genetic lottery?

What is your position on tobacco? Should the high taxes be eliminated?
 
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