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Post by jmejia1187 on May 15, 2010 19:28:12 GMT -5
Haha this it not life or death. People who are obese by eating habits have done it to themselves. If they want to stop drinking sodas, they can do it themselves. Will it make them lose enough weight to prevent the heart attacks? Nope. But it's not the government's place to tax sodas as an attempt to discourage drinking them (even if the profits go towards treating obesity). The tax is not to discourage drinking. It is to offset the rise in government health costs, of obese people in hospitals.
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Post by jmejia1187 on May 15, 2010 19:30:16 GMT -5
Cortney, read this: ArticleIt is about how obese people (and a few other people) are becoming too costly!
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Post by Trey on May 15, 2010 19:35:57 GMT -5
This is one entertaining thread xD
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Post by Nakor on May 15, 2010 20:33:07 GMT -5
The question is, how do we end up paying off the costs of dealing with the obese later? It's going to come from taxes one way or another. Why not put those taxes on the things that are causing the problem in the first place? Thus, the people who are causing the problem for themselves are also paying the taxes that will end up treating them, and the rest of the population isn't held responsible.
Edit: As an added bonus, people who are not at fault for their own obesity (people who eat well but cannot lose weight) aren't stuck with the tax. It taxes people who make poor choices, not people who are obese. An important distinction.
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