Soft Drink Tax to pay for Healthcare?

[marincounty]

OMG they want to tax soda. So what, that stuff is empty calories anyway, just like candy.
And they already tax food in many states, and I am assuming this includes soda and candy.
Funny, most of the states that tax food are right-wing strongholds, so much for liberals trying to screw you again.

Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia Kansas all tax food.

California, New York, Massachusetts, none of them tax food.

Forget about your anger at taxing soda, how about the regressive food tax?


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[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: Possessed Freak

Originally posted by: techs
Yeah, it would have been better if we could have just used the progressive income tax, but the Republicans will have a shit fit if any of the wealthiest people lost their Bush tax cut a day early.

It is your opinion that a progressive income tax is better. I actually prefer a straight flat tax (not fair, not flat starting at 10k income, but a flat tax across the board from dollar 1).

Regardless, a progressive tax would not be the answer here. The government would use the progressive tax for other revenue and say that healthcare should be paid in part to taxes of unhealthy stuff.

My answer to this: if you are obese then you are not covered for obese related sicknesses. No different then the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. If you have screwed up your body through intake of bad food, smoke, drugs, alcohol then you are not covered when those affected organs go bad.

We already have that "flat" tax, you know the one starting at dollar one but with the cap so's all the rich people don't have no hardship a'pay'n it.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: marincounty
OMG they want to tax soda. So what, that stuff is empty calories anyway, just like candy.
And they already tax food in many states, and I am assuming this includes soda and candy.
Funny, most of the states that tax food are right-wing strongholds, so much for liberals trying to screw you again.

Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia Kansas all tax food.

California, New York, Massachusetts, none of them tax food.

Forget about your anger at taxing soda, how about the regressive food tax?


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Tennessee does not tax FOOD because it is food. It is a flat sales tax. This proposal would make that tax even higher as it would add a federal % on top of our state/local 9.75% (or whatever we're up to now). Granted we don't have a state income tax which makes the high sales tax easier to deal with.

 

[piasabird]

How about a high-end Uppity Coffee tax? No one needs to drink coffee it is a drug addiction. I reccommend a $1.00 per cup coffee tax. I will pay the soda tax if you pay my coffee tax. So are you only going to tax things with sugar in it? No tax on sugar free soda! How about a tax on hot choclate, sweatened tea, and sweetened cool-aid, and all of the juice with sugar or High Fructose added. Then we need a big tax on ice cream and lemonaide. Lets also tax all cake, muffin and bread mixes with sugar in it. Lets get this slippery slope going.

Sausage has some kind of sugar or fructose.

Cant have none of that barbeque sauce or ketchup either, it is full of sugar.

Note to self: Drink more Vitamin water. At least it has some vitamins in it.

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: NaughtyGeek

Originally posted by: Genx87

When I see shit like this proposal it makes me realize the religious right and left wing liberals are the same people. Each trying to force their world view down our throats and control our lives via big govt. The best is when both play kettle to each others pot.

Hey look, someone with a brain, sweet.

Hmm, there have been linked studies in other threads that smoking DECREASES an individuals cost on the system, there are references here to obesity studies that show fat people cost the system less, yet some "moral" prick still gets up on his mighty high horse and tells us how those people should pay more taxes because they're costing society money? This legislation is nothing more than a way to tax people more with the shield of it's good for you backed by the fictional idea that the targeted group is somehow costing you the "moral" moron money. GTFO of what I do with my body and my life otherwise you may eventually find the breaking point of some folks who've had enough of your "superiority" and shoot you in your friggen face.

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[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Andrew1990
Why punish fat/obese/blubber butt people who drink pop. Why not go directly to the problem and tax skinny people for not dtrinking enough pop?

<-- corrected for accuaracy sake!!

 

[piasabird]

Tax is all about stealing money from hard working people.