Taxing the Sweet Stuff
By monarch79
@monarch79 (75)
United States
5 responses
@BLTLife (337)
• United States
30 Mar 12
It's a good thing what they want but they are going about it the wrong way.
The government has no place trying to control what we put in our own bodies. The way they should be going on about this is education on diet and exercise AND providing low income people with more nutritional food than the junk most of them eat. Key word being, provide.
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
31 Mar 12
I actually see quite a few low income people buying lots of junk food. Some of their kitchens are filled with processed, bagged, and sugar laden snacks. This goes for some of the more wealthy too. The thing that bothers me most is that people will buy all name brand, more expensive food that costs just as much as the healthy food. Why not get the healthy food instead? I'm a bargain shopper myself.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
31 Mar 12
Personally I think overall this is a little rediculous and crazy. Personally wouldn't it be better to find ways to educate people on how to eat Healthy and learn to cut out foods and such like this instead? And personally learning to improve the types of foods they allow in vending machines, and school lunches as well. If people were educated on how to eat more healthy there would be less worries about these types of food, as when you look at it, there are other foods out there that are just as bad.
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
4 Apr 12
Fact is...people are already educated on the subject, they just make choices. These choices are also influenced by cost and our gotta have it now thinking. This encourages people to choose less healthy foods like convenience store and fast foods. I did a study on healthy foods in vending machines, and this idea should not be overlooked. Some machines are already out there like this, but not enough of them. If you put it in front of people, they stand a greater chance of choosing what's healthy. All kinds of junk food is readily available. If only that were true for healthy foods.
@Graceekwenx (3160)
• Philippines
30 Mar 12
Welcome to Mylot Monarch!
I think thats a great idea!!! but could you at least spare the cakes and ice cream??? hehehehehe
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
31 Mar 12
Ha! That would at least encourage people to only buy around special occassions.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
30 Mar 12
I love sweets but every time I eat because I fatten.
I think it is necessary to have such taxes.
Yet we all eat a sweet and young children why it needs to have those taxes that will make us spem to eat more but rather will take.
nice day!
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
31 Mar 12
I think I agree with it. It seems like people are loading themselves with unhealthy food and then wonder why things are going wrong in their bodies. I also know that quantity of the food eaten is a problem too.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
30 Mar 12
They already did in Hungary, I think it's a good thing.
Fact is (esp. in my country) candies, sweeties etc are way cheaper as healthy food. Fact is also most of us are overweighted (not only because of that).
Junk food is expensive but unhealthy too. It cost all of us (society who is forced to have a health insurance with an own risk of the first hundreds of euros) a lot of money. I don't think if this tax will help against obesity since sigarettes are expensive too and those who love to smoke will still smoke.
This besides of the fact taxes are a great way to make a high income for the state so if we all would quite smoking, drinking, eating, going to the gasstation they would raise the tax on water or the air we breathe.
But if the taxes are raised on sugar/salt etc because of health reasons, the taxes on healthy food should go down. It must be possible to buy (good) food.
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
31 Mar 12
I dislike that junky foods are more affordable than healthy foods, but health bills cost a lot too. I wish they would bring down the cost of the good stuff so I can feed my family of 7 without breaking the bank.
