Originally
posted by
Ivan:
Actually people being obese,smoking,drinkin etc etc etc costs socitety money which is why they put taxes on things to begin with
They put taxes on things to begin with because the government is a cancer that continually tries to expand and expand until it is in every crevice of society. No government voluntarily gets smaller, and all governments try to become bigger, so if there is something that they can tax, they will find a reason to tax it. In democracies, usually the reasons have to be appeals to emotion, so they tell people that things that are unhealthy (ie. cigarettes) or immoral (ie. pollution) need to be taxed. In dictatorships, they just tax everything without reason. People on the left usually eat it up and love these taxes. "Oh my government, my God, please take my money" they say, but really it is no different than how it is done in dictatorships, you just feel slightly better about it. Don't think for a second they're taxing these things because it costs society money. It wouldn't cost society money in the first place if they didn't implement the measures that ensured it would cost society money. Most of the money from these taxes will go back into the soda companies pockets through subsidies or tax breaks in one way or another, and so soda will still cost society just as much if not more money and the debt will continue to grow to astronomical numbers.
That said, yeah soda makes you fat as fluff. Don't drink it if you can avoid it. Just don't think that a corporation that views you in terms of whatever group you may fall into has your best interest in mind. They don't care if you're fat. They care that you have money that they can coerce you into giving them.