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Gov. is considering taxing sugar. 

Is this good or bad?
Poll ended at Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:17 pm
It would lower obesity. 53%  53%  [ 8 ]
Are you kidding me? I ain't paying a CENT more for sugar. 47%  47%  [ 7 ]
Total votes : 15

Gov. is considering taxing sugar. 
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Around 35 million people die each year of non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes and a wave of obesity is unfurling from rich countries to developing economies, say three US academics who authored the piece.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/h ... z1lLraMiiW


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the United States, the government is currently considering a soda tax that would raise the price of a can of fizzy drink by around 10-12 US cents, bringing in some 14 billion dollars a year of revenue.

But "statistical modelling suggests that the price would have to double to significantly reduce soda consumption -- so a one-dollar can should cost two dollars," say the trio.
Hopefully this would stop me from giving myself acid from all that sugar. But, then again, coffee tastes like a** without sugar.

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One time I went to the soda machine in my school to get a drink, but everything was fifteen cents more than usual. I brought exact change, so I couldn't get anything.
I've been scarred for life.


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tax salt
it's a lot worse then sugar

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there should me a "not us resident" choice in the poll.

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noyk wrote:
there should me a "not us resident" choice in the poll.

Or rather, if the subject matter doesn't apply to you, you don't have to vote, post, or participate in general.

I believe this is a good idea. As one who is a supporter of these kinds, I believe it's just one more step to repairing this deficit.


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noyk wrote:
there should me a "not us resident" choice in the poll.

I thought that's what the first one was.


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It might help but people who consume sugar on a daily basis won't change because it's a higher price

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I don't like the idea, but if it lowers obesity and death count, I'm all for it...


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Raising prices is no way to regulate what people eat. They might as well be emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. While simultaneously robbing people.


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I'm not worried about people's malnutrition, rather smart and easy ways to lighten the deficit.


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Yeah, but maybe they should find a better way to do it than by taxing things.


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Live Grenade wrote:
Yeah, but maybe they should find a better way to do it than by taxing things.

Maybe they should do a car wash!

Taxing is more or less the only way out of this pit right now. And then paying for large projects with said tax money, to get more people to work.


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I was referring to making me the unquestioned king of the United States of America, but a car wash could work too.


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Live Grenade wrote:
Yeah, but maybe they should find a better way to do it than by taxing things.

Maybe they should do a car wash!

Taxing is more or less the only way out of this pit right now. And then paying for large projects with said tax money, to get more people to work.

geno has a malfunctioning economics logic gland

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hi i dont know anything about economics except for what the polticians tell me

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