If so, why?
2007-01-13 03:19:19 · 37 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
Yes and No at the same time. I would love to see a tax on junk food.
The reason behind my suggestion is that the tax would be used as an indirect mean to stop the obesity crisis. By making healthy food cheaper, people would eat more fruit and vegetables.
Right now they aren't affordable. Between an $ 8 salad and $1.50 order of french fries, it just make sense to buy the french fries.
Afterall, healthy eating is how we can prevent health problems. A healthy population is a population with a better economy, better brains, cheaper medical insurances etc...
Mind you, I love the taste of junk food just like anyone else but to me, my health is more important. I would still eat a treat now and then, but likely not as often as I do now.
Junk food being high fat, high sugar, high salt foods. While I am at it, I would give a tax break to people joining gyms, fitness clubs etc...
2007-01-13 04:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Food bought at the supermarkets should NOT be taxed -- we have enough taxes already.
They already encourage you to drink healthy drinks by taxing the soda pop and they already make the difference between food as a necessity (groceries) and for pleasure (restaurants) by taxing the food in restaurants, at least in my state.
And if anything it would be the democrats that would want to add a tax to groceries -- of course they would start out by taxing the junk food and then slowly expanding that list. Then, they would say they are using this money to help the lower class. In fact, they did try that a few years back (junk food tax) and it got quickly repealed when people got very upset.
2007-01-13 05:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by mrbush 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I strongly do not believe that food should be taxed because it is something we need to survive. Although i do understand that government does need some money from us but the thing that angers me extremely is that they always put our money to bad use. I truly find this very unacceptable. We pay taxes for many things like our homes cars and stuff like that. BUT FOOD!! for goodness sake were paying for all that stuff but at least let us get away with the food taxes. I mean i find it much more important then many other things. Because without it as you all know we will die. Although we all know that its probably never going to happen. So why try to make it happen. Well that's pretty much what i think about it.
2007-01-13 04:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Food should not be taxed. This is every person's most basic need. Why should we be taxed on this?
Let us be taxed more heavily on things we really don't need: videogames, ipods, cd's, movie tickets, big screen tv's, atv's, etc...
Think about it: Every weekend the American public spends billions of dollars entertaining themselves. The ticket prices have gone up with no extra money going to taxes.
If we were taxed $.25 per ticket, Night at the Museum alone would have brought in $40,960,178.50. Enough to build a school? Feed millions? You name it!
2007-01-13 03:30:46 · answer #4 · answered by njspanteach 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, If they would replace the current tax system with a national sales tax on everything we buy, then yes. If not, then taxing food is another way for the governement to get additional revenue to spend on some dumb project
2007-01-13 03:29:21 · answer #5 · answered by bama_cid 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Everything else is taxed enough why add more taxes to things that are a needed every day. Oh I know why. Because the government need more money and don't know of any other way to get it.
2007-01-13 03:23:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jody Lynn 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
rules variety from state to state so which you may ought to understand what your state's regulation says fantastically. I stay in Indiana and you're no longer taxed on produce, bread or meat in case you purchase them at a grocery on your guy or woman guidance, yet once you p.c.. up a sandwich at that keep's deli, then it is taxed comparable as in case you went to KFC or McDonald's. candy is taxed yet a bag of chocolate chips from the baking aisle isn't taxed. Soda is taxed yet juice isn't. Our state tax fee is 7%. If i bypass to the closest super city they have one greater a million% tax on eating places even speedy foodstuff. that's a city tax, no longer state tax however the end result it a similar - OUCH!!
2016-10-07 02:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by vanderbilt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly don't think food should be taxed.
Taxes shouldn't even be here anymore. They were supposed to stop years ago. But, since they were making so much money from them, they still have them.
And I live in Canada, and there stupid. What they did was took 1 cent off of tax. Used to be 15 cents, now it's 14. Whoop-dee-doo! What's nothing, Ha-ha!
Anyways!
2007-01-13 03:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by emcintaggart 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What are you trying to do?I don't think any of the food should be taxed.It's bad enough that we have to tax or fast food restaurants.
2007-01-13 08:42:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
they are lready taxed in VA. I generally think there shouldn't be sales tax period. or income tax, one of them has got to go. The goverenment taxes my money when I make it, then taxes it again when I spend it. Then they tax my property so that would be taxing the dollars that I spend on the house and car a third time.
2007-01-13 03:23:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋