Quote:Sure then add a 100% tax on all fatty foods, alcohol, sweets and sugars! 

 

that's how it works, central planning moves to dictate behavior through premiums that's the very theory behind Obamacare. If your good with government taxing "sins" then your not better than the big government "liberals" you bemoan everyday. 

 

I always believed Marijuana should be legalized, but with a high "vice" tax that would go straight into funding infrastructure. Of course I'd also make D.U.I. laws much harsher as well to try and curb a larger rate of people driving under the influence. In any case, I like the idea of a "vice tax", on legalized marijuana, cigarettes and alcohol, but not on food. People buy the food they can afford. Healthy foods like fresh vegetables and fruits are way higher priced than junk food. You can't penalize people for buying the only foods they can afford to eat. If you add a tax to fatty foods and sugars then we need to regulate how much sugars and unnecessary ingredients are in the foods. Countries in Europe laugh at the kind of things we put in our foods here. Many of them frown on artificial coloring and flavoring and excessive sweetners and you don't see the excessive junk food over there that you see here. The companies who make the bad foods should be taxed extra until they come around and make their foods healthier. If everything was on a level playing field, it would then drive down the cost of the healthy foods. 

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