Oh Boy, here we go, a purposed tax on soft drinks

MtnBiker

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Doctors call for 'fat tax' on Coca-Cola and Pepsi
from Barry Wigmore in New York


Doctors will this week declare war on America's soft drinks industry by calling for a 'fat tax' to combat the nation's obesity epidemic.

Delegates at the powerful American Medical Association's annual conference will demand a levy on the sweeteners put in sugary drinks to pay for a massive public health education campaign.

They will also call for the amount of salt added to burgers and processed foods to be halved.

The moves come as U.S. doctors - like their British counterparts - are becoming increasingly alarmed at the growing number of deaths linked to obesity.

The resolution will put doctors on a collision course with Coca-Cola and Pepsi, plus the likes of McDonald's and Burger King.

Sales of soft drinks in U.S. schools are in decline ahead of the introduction of guidelines allowing only healthier low-calorie drinks, plus milk and certain fruit juices, over the next two years.

But the medical association wants to go further. Delegates at its Chicago conference are gunning in particular for high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener which is added to everything from ketchup to cola.

One American politician labelled it the 'crack of sweeteners' because it is so widespread.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=390171&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=


Just another way to fleece money out of people.
 
One day - when we go to a restaurant and are told what we can and cannot order based upon our weight and blood pressure - we will look back to decisions like this...and wish that the government had put out an ad campaign supporting personal responsibility - rather than taxing foods that no one is forcing someone to eat or drink.
 
CSM said:
Just how much of that tax money do believe will actually go into a massive public education campaign? What a crock of crap!
About 82% will go into a bloated bureaucracy. That will ask for additional funding every fiscal year.
 
MtnBiker said:
About 82% will go into a bloated bureaucracy. That will ask for additional funding every fiscal year.

No doubt to pay the bloated salaries of the fatasses running it.
 
I told you that taxing tobacco and other life styles was only the start. Odd people complain about getting "religion crammed down thier throats" but aren't going to complain when things that they voluntarily cram down thier throats are taxed.:dunno:
 

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