| flagstaad said: Taxing is a good idea, it could also help the health system to provide campaigns and treatment to those who choose not to eat healthy. It will make the companies try to produce healthier products so they can avoid the taxes and is not forbidding anyone to buy the unhealthy stuff, you just have to pay a little more to do it and it is still your choice. Off course this will only work in a low poverty country, because the poor people need the high energy intakes at a low price to survive. So only junk food that is considered processed (ingredients cannot be taxed) and a luxury can be taxed, and it becomes quite a difficult task to do it. |
taxing to stop people from doing something definatly falls under the catagory of removing choice. you said it all right there in one sentance. Forcing people to pay more is forcing people to change their choices. it never works, it has never worked, and never will. People will always make their own choices, no manner of taxes will stop that, so why punish every body? Heck, you can even ban and outlaw sugar, and that won't work either, as prohibition also never works. Look at the world around you, when has the government deciding something is best for your health ever worked succesfully, prohibition-no, ban drugs-no, tax cigaretts-no. When has education worked to help battle bad habbits-cigarettes yes. So its better to educate than to tax and ban. But of course its easier to just tax and ban than to actually solve the problem of teaching people (mainly kids from a young age) the proper way to eat and make choices for themselves.
