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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6259227" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>It's not SUGAR that's being taxed though. It's "sugary" drinks, and generally lumped in with sports and energy drinks which are considered objectionable not because of sweeteners but caffiene. Many soda formulas switched from real sugar to artificial sweeteners long ago for the simple expedient of <em>cost</em>. It's "things which have too many calories" that are being taxed by these laws. But that's really not the real motivation. The real motivation is MONEY.</p><p></p><p>They are implementing these taxes not because they are actually interested in lowering health care costs. If they were then they would be applying the money coming FROM these taxes directly to health care and address two aspects of the issue at once - discourage buying unhealthy drinks and food while helping to pay for the higher health costs unhealthy food and drinks bring with them. Individual laws MIGHT do that but I'll wager good money most of them just put money into a general fund. The money that will ultimately be derived from these taxes will be very substantial. Technically the money will be available still to apply to worsening health issues but it won't be - it will be used for other things and money applied to health care won't increase.</p><p></p><p>But you can't sell the idea of this kind of tax to people as easily based on "It'll be a really awesome source of new revenue." So instead it is framed as, "We're ONLY concerned with public health and the associated costs. The fat sums of money that we can then apply to whatever graft and waste government programs to get ourselves re-elected actually has nothing to do with it."</p><p></p><p>The twist is that the more they tax these things the more the government will come to RELY on the tax coming from these things and then if they actually DID reduce their purchase and use they will only drive the need to tax them ever more severely or stretch further to find something else to tax.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6259227, member: 32740"] It's not SUGAR that's being taxed though. It's "sugary" drinks, and generally lumped in with sports and energy drinks which are considered objectionable not because of sweeteners but caffiene. Many soda formulas switched from real sugar to artificial sweeteners long ago for the simple expedient of [I]cost[/I]. It's "things which have too many calories" that are being taxed by these laws. But that's really not the real motivation. The real motivation is MONEY. They are implementing these taxes not because they are actually interested in lowering health care costs. If they were then they would be applying the money coming FROM these taxes directly to health care and address two aspects of the issue at once - discourage buying unhealthy drinks and food while helping to pay for the higher health costs unhealthy food and drinks bring with them. Individual laws MIGHT do that but I'll wager good money most of them just put money into a general fund. The money that will ultimately be derived from these taxes will be very substantial. Technically the money will be available still to apply to worsening health issues but it won't be - it will be used for other things and money applied to health care won't increase. But you can't sell the idea of this kind of tax to people as easily based on "It'll be a really awesome source of new revenue." So instead it is framed as, "We're ONLY concerned with public health and the associated costs. The fat sums of money that we can then apply to whatever graft and waste government programs to get ourselves re-elected actually has nothing to do with it." The twist is that the more they tax these things the more the government will come to RELY on the tax coming from these things and then if they actually DID reduce their purchase and use they will only drive the need to tax them ever more severely or stretch further to find something else to tax. [/QUOTE]
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