Should there be a tax on fast food and junk food?

Question

We pay sin-taxes on cigarettes and alcohol to off-set the burden it puts on our health-care system. Should we pay a sin-tax on food that is unhealthy for us and makes us fat? Isn't heart disease, diabetes and other diseases caused by diet a much bigger burden on our health-care system then what cigarettes and alcohol cause?

Answer 1

There already is and those other taxes are just plain wrong. It is a person's choice on what happens to one's body and nobody else's business - especially government. The claim that it costs everyone is bogus - it can only do so if we allow the government to become Marxist. If the government didn't interfere with people's lives as the founding fathers intended, then the only person it would cost would be the individual. It's all part of the leftwing conspiracy (not really, that implies organization and it just sort-of happens) to destroy the USA Constitution and its required individual freedoms and replace it with government freedoms (Marxism).

Answer 2

It simply is a variation on the theme of sin taxes. Fast food and junk food is just the latest reincarnation of the sin taxes. And many states are jumping onto fees, etc., claiming they aren't raising taxes. And some of the more vigorous State in that regard are colored RED. In the State I live, with a governor who took the no-tax pledge, they are looking at fees that would raise the cost of gas by 25 cents per gallon, and registration by about $100 to close a $4 billion gap in transportation needs, to stop bridges from falling down, etc. But the current budget was passed with NO tax increase. But tremendous cuts that impact the poor and the sick, and to education. But the biggest sucker tax is the State Lottery. And that really ropes in the poor. That and casinos and other forms of state sponsored gambling.

Answer 3

I'd like to tell you what you can do with any new taxes, but the Y/A Community Guidelines preclude it. I don't smoke, but I'm disgusted with the way the government profits from cigarettes. I rarely drink, but I'm still fed up with the way the government taxes alcohol. No, we absolutely do not need any new taxes. The government does not need to keep reaching deeper into the wallet of the American worker.

How about an illegal alien tax? They pay no income tax and use a disproportionate amount of local services (school, health care).

Answer 4

NO. Fast food places are not the problem. It's people too lazy to make something healthy to eat and wont do any excercise. Just like everything else, some morons try to blame and sue someone else for their own stupidity and lack of self control. So why should people who eat these foods in moderation be punished.?Besides that, any tax the government would put on that would not go for any health problems caused by that.

Answer 5

It depends where you are but generally there is. Fast food has a higher tax along with everything else as a dine-out tax (prepared food tax) which is usually a few points higher.

Junk food is not tax exempt in some states that don't tax food.

A luxury tax is primarily payed for by the middle class. Reduced company profit equals lower wages for the workers and higher prices for the consumers.

Answer 6

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Symptoms of type 1 diabetes:

Increased thirst
Increased urination
Weight loss in spite of increased appetite
Fatigue
Nausea
Vomiting

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If you think you have diabetes i think you should have a checkup and speak with your doctor just in case.

Answer 7

No, it is none of the government's business what I eat.

The government our founding fathers set up was supposed to be small and unobtrusive, not Big Brother. We need less government and less taxes, not more.

Answer 8

Anything else you would like to add to that ...how about a tax on oxygen while you are at it .

Answer 9

I'm surprised that somebody hasn't done it already.

Answer 10

hell no, ya gotta eat