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Re: I think they are stupid ideas. kHz1000 Send a noteboard - 13/11/2012 03:28:59 PM
Unlike cigarette taxes, where there is no benefit whatsoever from smoking and harm from even small amounts of cigarette smoke, sugar is, quite simply, energy for the body and, if taken in the right amounts, helpful to the body's proper functioning. A tax on fats is even more ridiculous, as the notion that "eating fat makes you fat" has been so thoroughly disproven as to be laughable. Fats, proteins and carbohydrates (i.e., sugars) are all needed for our bodies to properly function.

Oh, I don't know about this. Looking at the 10 leading causes of death in the Unites States, I'd say that half of them are linked to excessive intake of saturated fat. Some fats are essential (our brain is mostly fat!) while others are just harmful. I would also claim that we have no physiological need to ingest pure sugar. Not that it's necessary a bad thing, eating sugar. Just, you know, try to keep the amount reasonable.


If these substances are abused by some, that is their own problem. Of course, this is one reason why I have issues with the entire socialized medicine concept, because it gives the government reason to stick its nose into people's eating habits. That aside, however, the solution would seem to me to be a surtax on the obese.

Obesity is most definitely a public health issue. And it's staggering how prevalent it's predicted to become. It's like we're swimming in fat.
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Sin taxes on fat and sugar. What do you think? kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 09:19:33 AM 685 Views
Sure. Revenue's got to come from somewhere. But only after we end corn subsidies and the like. *NM* Burr - 13/11/2012 01:52:01 PM 227 Views
I think they are stupid ideas. Tom - 13/11/2012 02:11:14 PM 480 Views
Re: I think they are stupid ideas. kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 03:28:59 PM 469 Views
Yeah you're right Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:52:09 PM 437 Views
Yes, that is exactly what I meant kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 03:59:00 PM 462 Views
The only fair way to combat obesity Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 04:03:33 PM 478 Views
slight problem with your logic moondog - 13/11/2012 06:56:54 PM 404 Views
Well, I like this kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 07:44:02 PM 502 Views
That... DomA - 14/11/2012 05:54:27 PM 503 Views
I would recommend you read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes everynametaken - 14/11/2012 06:04:42 AM 516 Views
Agreed 100% *NM* Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:52:38 PM 188 Views
It's a pretty regressive tax. Stephen - 13/11/2012 03:34:21 PM 454 Views
This, plus a large dose of what Tom said. Joel - 13/11/2012 08:41:28 PM 407 Views
Idiotic Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:55:19 PM 413 Views
I don't think it will do any good. nossy - 13/11/2012 04:54:12 PM 418 Views
If people want to get fat they're going to get fat TheCrownless - 13/11/2012 06:40:38 PM 402 Views
I think we have bigger concerns then Jessica's Sugar Tooth *NM* Isaac - 13/11/2012 08:02:24 PM 196 Views
Palm oil? They want to tax shampoo? Legolas - 13/11/2012 11:03:44 PM 407 Views
No, the tax is only for foodstuffs in which palm oil is an ingredient. I should've clarified that *NM* kHz1000 - 14/11/2012 11:53:30 AM 208 Views
A palm oil tax is potentially a much more complex issue than you suggest snoopcester - 13/11/2012 11:12:24 PM 402 Views
Re: A palm oil tax is potentially a much more complex issue than you suggest DomA - 14/11/2012 05:25:15 PM 429 Views
No A Deathwatch Guard - 13/11/2012 11:42:14 PM 443 Views
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