Why not tax sugar sodas?

based on the following premises, i support taxing sugar soft drinks but i'm interested to hear what the opponents say.  who wants to argue it?

1.regardless of whatever nonsense is going on in washington with health care reform, our health care system needs serious help

2. regardless of just about anything, this country needs to raise money

3. one of the reasons for 1 and 2 above is that people generally take shit care of themselves, are overweight and destined to have various, very expensive medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes, etc.

4. refined sugars, are a major, if not the major, contributor to such chronic and very expensive medical conditions

5. there is no nutritional value whatsoever in sugar drinks like coke, mountain dew, etc.

6. there is precedent for taxing things that fall into category five, i.e. cigarettes.

so, who's with me?

Quote Originally Posted by NJDevils:



I dont even drink soda and this is beyond f'n dumb

Tax the f*ck out of idiot smokers though..Seriously f*ck those people

i'm for taxing cigarettes too but they already tax the shit out of cigarettes.  the gov't has to be careful not to tax itself out of business.

do you have any specific comment on those premises or you just generally don't like the idea?

ok. 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I need my pepsi

because if they tax it ........the money that they get from it would just go to Welfare-ticia, so she can stay home all day with her five kids from five differnt dadies and not work

no more taxes on anything

Because let's say a bottle of orange juice costs $1.50, and a Coke costs the same.  Do you honestly believe that if they raise the price of the Coke, they won't raise the price of the OJ, too?

It's basically a free pass to raise the prices on EVERYTHING.

no thank you...but i would not be shocked if such a tax were levied...i am of the mindset that we need to use more common sense and spend within our means, no matter how comical this sounds  

holde em, can't argue with that but that's not the world we live in.

BK, that doesn't address premise 1 or 2 which make it clear we do need to raise money and they are going to do it somehow so why not this way.

capt, you know something is coming.  tax that is, not common sense.

Quote Originally Posted by Spitfire15:



I like that thought.

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