http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35813973
>Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a tax on the makers of sugary soft drinks to tackle childhood obesity.
Your thoughts /pol/?
Next *they* will tax our carbon footprint.
>>67650202
-worldwide
>>67650092
It doesn't matter. People will always have the free will to choose. It's really all about lack of education, really. Most parents today don't teach their child how to cook a meal.
good, dont need any more fat fucks in the world
>>67650246
But cooking a meal isn't even hard.
>>67650092
Fat fucks on suicide watch.
Cameron looks as if he is making direct eye contact with Komrade Korbyn during that statement from Osbourne.
>We need to lower taxes
>Except when it only effects lower classes, then taxes are okay
Tricky.
>>67650392
>lefties decrying this as a tax on the poor
kek
>>67650092
I hate fatties that can't control themselves with fast food and pop. Now a that shit is taxed and is more expensive whenever I rarely get some.
>>67650477
This isn't a tax on the poor, the insurance tax is though.
>>67650477
I'm not a leftist, nice strawman my mate.
FINE AND DANDY
TAX THE CANDY
Same tax has been in Finland for ages already. And the tax is very high.
>>67650092
Nanny Bloomberg tried to pull this shit in NYC and failed. UK confirmed for worse than New York.
So I'll have to pay more because fat fucks can't control themselves?
>>67650313
It is if every meal you've ever eaten comes from a box and ends up in a microwave.
My roommate only has tv dinners and precooked shit that you reheat. He can't even fry an egg.
>>67650092
Good, your body doesn't need that shit
Great, the tax revenue'll help the NHS treat the obesity related diseases.
>>67650092
>Will they make a license available though m8?
I only want registered people buying soft drinks
Good.
Don't end up like us Englandbros.
surprised by all the goods in this thread.
Sugary soft drinks shouldn't even exist. Fine them to high hell.
>>67650313
>>67650860
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVNdRAssECw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t38Z5c-uXQ
Finns are natural chefs anon
Literally a good thing, fucking terrible for you especially kids guzzling them down
Plus they said the tax money raised is going into primary school sport/exercise
Will save even more money in the long run not having fat fucks
Fat people ruin everything
Landwhales on suicide watch
No fatass, if you want special seats on public transport, pay it by yourself
>>67650868
"Need" is an insanely shit argument.
>>67650860
To be honest I do that often myself, but I can still cook a proper dinner which is maybe once or month. What's the point of cooking properly when you can just cook spaghetti & bolognese, pizza or boil eggs and make sammich houses?
I don't know why sugary drinks even exist when we have zero/diet that taste exactly the same and are better for you.
I got taxed £800 this month and it sickens me
I just want less tax on my wage
>>67651052
Yes, he's fucked in the head. Probably drunk with munchies so he doesn't care too much what's in the pot as long as he gets some protein and his stomach filled.
>>67651364
Earn less then
British sugary soft drinks? You mean Ollie Wollie Bottles?
>>67651526
Son please
>>67651380
Pasi is your national treasure don't speak ill of him you traitor
>>67650092
They are planning to do this in Canada too.
A huge bag of rice, pasta, lentils, beans, and potatoes are super cheap. Most veggies are quite cheap. These are staples that can feed the family. Also, you can be fit and still eat unhealthy foods occasionally.. in the end it comes down to calories in vs calories out.
If all you think you can afford is cheap unhealthy foods, firstly youre wrong, secondly I have news for you... if you want to lose weight continue to eat your unhealthy snacks, just eat LESS. There, i just saved you money and got you in shape. Personally I don't think we need the government to teach us how to eat, or tell us what to eat. And food prices are so high, the last thing we need is more taxes.
I am already on a budget, I buy the cheapest meat possible, in-season veggies, and large bags of rice or pasta... I simply take the time to weigh everything i eat and track how many calories i am consuming. I also run and go to the gym, shouldn't i get taxed less for being healthy and active? Couldn't we just skip all this BS and tax fat people when they are checked into the hospital for obesity relate issues? I hardly ever get to treat myself with a nice steak or whatever because its just too pricey for me... And now if i want to treat myself to a weekly chocolate bar that's going to cost more for me too? Great. ...meanwhile rapefugees in Canada are being given $66 per day food allowance..
get fucking rekt nanny state faggots
>>67650092
Good. Sugary soft drinks are for faggots, this will help people drink more alcohol. Insted of fat kids you get drunk kids. Much better OY VEY!
>>67651364
Many places you can move and get very low or no taxes
>>67651727
This is a good thing?
>>67650092
Tax parents for each fat kid they raise.
>>67651618
More like national burden, constantly on about how the social security should pay him more. You can have him if you want, we have enough memes as it is.
>>67650092
Why don't they introduce a tax on kebab?
That would be a good economically nationalist messure.
>government stealing from people while pretending it's for their own good
Boring.
>>67651727
If this is what getting 'fucked by the government' is i think I can get used to it lmao
>>67651886
A fucking leaf
>>67651360
Please be joking
>>67651958
1400
>>67651785
>>67651942
sure, be proud to get taxed further. retards.
The number of statist Britshits in this thread is depressing.
>>67651020
/thread
>>67650092
Fucking right, Osborne, tax them fat fucks, we don't want to wind up a nation known for being fat fucks.
>>67652059
I don't drink sugary shite because I'm not a fat cunt
>>67651942
You're proud that your government is finding new and interesting ways to steal from you?
Britcucks are fucking pathetic.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE NHS PRIVATE IN MY LIFETIME
THE GOVERNMENT HATES THAT I ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE, SINCE THAT IS ALL THAT IS LEFT HERE.
WHAT IS POINT? IF I SMOKED AND DRANK SUGARY SHIT, I'D DIE BEFORE RETIREMENT AND SAVE EVERYONE A PENNY.
JUST LET ME BE HAPPY FFS.
>>67650092
The only reason to be mad at this is if you're a fat fuck who drinks the sugary jew.
This literally wont affect me in any way so I don't care lel. I haven't had that shit in about 7 years
>>67650092
Childhood obesity costs $0 to fix so fit the tax to cover the costs.
No problems here.
>>67650202
Can't wait for UK citizens having to strap a machine on their ass to monitor their farts and being taxed based on how much methane comes out
>>67652059
The tax is on the companies you retard.
>Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a tax on the makers
>>67652029
100% serious, I can't tell the difference in taste and you can jump on the "DUDE ASPERTAME" meme if you want but 50+ years of studies shows that it's fine.
>>67651020
this 2bh
>>67650092
>oy cunt you have your sugary soft drinks licence with you
You're welcome /pol/
Industry taxes are always bullshit unless the tax goes to directly support or regulate the industry.
These "fuck you" taxes are why people are so opposed to whatare otherwise progressive ideas.
>>67650092
Yeah don't hold the parents accountable for failing to raise their child properly. Dickheads.
>>67651942
Rest assured, it stops with sugary drinks.
Top kek
>>67652217
>JUST LET ME BE HAPPY FFS
Nobody is stopping you from doing any of that, just take some responsible for being such a fatass and a drain on the NHS.
>>67650092
>>67652179
>>67652239
>the government should decide what I eat and drink
>the government always knows what's best for me
>>67652244
The tax is gonna be spent on primary school sport (ages 7-11) which seems like a good thing to be desu
>>67651020
They shouldn't
But the government shouldn't have to police this
>I'm being punished because fat people can't control themselves
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>67652493
>>67652514
>>67652421
Fat cunts cost us a fortune in healthcare costs, fuck them for lack of self control
>>67650092
Why not cut out the middleman and straight out tax people on their bodyfat %.
>>67652493
>Media induces you to like things that are bad for you
>Goverment wants to put and end to this with soft means
Why the fuck don't they just reduce the tax on diet soda? Why do the laws passed to make us healthier or curb bad habits always just HAPPEN to make money for the government?
They gonna tax apple juice, too?
If health is the goal here, there should be an obesity tax, as it doesn't punish those who eat/drink in moderation.
>>67650092
excellent idea. We already did that with junk food. it is called the "chips" tax
>good morning western developed world
>>67652312
You joke, but they could just as well start taxing meat as it is known to cause global warming.
Then all these kids will not be laughing.
>>67652491
Listen here, it is probably better that I die before 65 and save everyone money rather than live on with machines into 80s.
>>67652572
>implying the government should be involved in healthcare in all but the most serious of circumstances
I can get private health insurance for less than the fraction of my taxes that go towards the NHS AND I'd get better treatment.
>>67652520
Yeah you are, in higher NHS costs and waiting times because they're shoving disgusting shit down their necks and guzzling sugary shite all day
>>67652493
>the government always knows what's best for me
Sugary drinks are objectively bad for you so in this case, yes, they do know what's best for me
>>67650092
This was necessary because it puts the ball right back in the fucking fatties' court.
For months we've said "just stop buying this shit" and fatties and shit parents say that isn't enough - that the government has to intervene. Well, now they've got their wish so if their kids end up fat as fuck, it's their fault and we can shove it in their fat fucking faces.
Hamgalaxies BTFO
How long until feminists start claiming they're being fat-shamed?
>>67652572
This is literally the exact same argument that could be used to ban alcohol but I know you don't support prohibition.
>>67652520
Fucking this. I don't buy sugary shit in this day and age but if I did I'd be pissed, the odd can of coke shouldn't cost 2 quid because fat cunts can't stop slamming down burgers.
>>67652572
Daily reminder of what we have to put up with
https://youtu.be/xPmtBg4wPH0?t=2m57s
>>67650092
I think he should look at NYC and what a clusterfuck that was when they did that here.
>>67651232
It depends really. I don't put diesel in a Ferrari. But Since you are probably overweight or skinnyfat, I guess it would make little difference to you.
>>67652685
Of course not. 95% of people have no idea what actually makes someone healthily. The government is part of that. They'll say, "Oh but juice has fruit so it's healthy!" And kids will still be getting fat on sugar
>>67652685
Apple juice is terrible for you, don't pretend it's healthy
>>67652720
>live on with machines into 80s
You must have some pretty shitty genetics m8
>>67652217
>needing sugar water to be happy
You fat cunt.
>>67650092
Where will this taxed money end up? Back into the country or in the fund MP's duck ponds and cocaine habits?
>>67652637
This
>>67650092
>New Tax on Freddo Bars
#TORIESOUT
>>67652685
that would be stupid if they leave juices untaxed
the logical step would be a tax on table sugar, tax on fruits and bread tax
>>67652897
Primary school sport is what he said in his speech lol
>>67652897
Funding sports in primary schools
>>67652848
m8 old farts are the no.1 reason why NHS is dying.
>>67652857
nice assumptions there m8.
>>67652897
Most of it will be burned through bureaucracy, I'd be surprised if even half of it even reached the end goal, be it MP's duck ponds or muh NHS.
>>67650936
But will it?
This will be interesting to see how addicting sugar really is. You can tax the FUCK out of alcohol and cigarettes and people will still buy them because they are addicted.
If this doesn't result in less soda being sold then people really are addicted on sugar.
>>67652342
you think the corporations are going to pay the price, or pass it on tho the consumers?
>>67652209
Neither do I, but food prices are HIGH and if i want to eat a fucking candy once a month i dont want to pay extra. I am not fat at all, so why should i have to pay this.
>>67652982
If you think your average 80 year old today is living on a machine or requires lots of treatment then you're a retard.
Why not ban sugar while they are at it?
>>67653101
>you think the corporations are going to pay the price, or pass it on tho the consumers?
Anyone who doesn't know this is a rhetorical question is a fucking retard
man brits are fucking pathetic
instead of being pissed at your dogshit healthcare setup and entertaining the idea of decentralizing it so that you arent all tied into the same single payer pool with landwhales, faggots, niggers, degenerate addicts, etc. you welcome the idea of additional taxation with open arms. the thought of liberty based solutions never even cross your minds. your country is fucking done.
>>67652386
My sides. Based aquafresh
People are complaining the bad gobunmint are raising taxes on sugar, but in the same budget he actually lowered taxes LOL
>The threshold at which people pay 40% tax will rise from £42,385 to £45,000 in April 2017
>Tax-free personal allowance to rise to £11,500 in April 2017
>Capital Gains Tax to be cut from 28% to 20%, and from 18% to 10% for basic-rate taxpayers
>>67650860
My bf can't even crack an egg and his family's cooking ability is almost non existent. The only vegetables they eat are corn or peas directly poured from can to bowl. I don't understand how they live.
They get pizza for dinner weekly and the rest of the time they make hamburger helper tier food as a main dish.
I don't get it. It's not the price of Coke that's make kids fat. It's uneducated lardo parents.
>>67653124
Please
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jul/27/elderly-care-cost-policy-exchange
There are a dozen articles like this every year.
Didn't Krispy Kreme ban soda in NYC and it backfired? I can barely remember
>>67653156
Because the western world just spent the last three decades sermonizing fat and meat I general so people get the high, high majority of their calories from sugar and carbs
>>67650092
If sugary drinks is causing obesity of which your hospitals, paid by the government, are being filled with obesity related illnesses, then the tax is justified. Don't like the tax? Either stop drinking soda, drink less soda, or drink heaps of soda and pay taxes to fund your C-Pap machine.
>>67653191
Delete this
>>67653287
>drinking soda and eating a doughnut
wtf america
>>67652774
It really is an argument against nationalized healthcare.
>>67653240
>be white trash
>not uncommon at all for people to put pepsi in a baby bottle
>sometimes they'll cut it with tap water
>this makes it healthier for the babby
>>67652774
>implying there's anywhere near as many alcoholics as there are diabetics
Even if you count alcohol induced road accidents, you're off by a wide margin
>>67650092
Wish they would do it here. Only time I drink soft drink is if i'm mixing it with booze so I'd just stick to Beer which they already tax heaps. At least now fat cunt addicted to sugar get taxed like drinkers and smokers.
>>67652685
>They gonna tax apple juice, too?
Yes. The tax is based upon the amount of dissolved sugar per 100ml.
>>67653471
Good point, diabetes inducing sugar kills more people than alcohol
>>67653375
sorry I said Krispy Kreme but I was referring to Chris Christie
>>67650092
it's only a justifiable reason to introduce yet more taxes and keep the poor poor
>>67650202
dead corps eaters on suicide watch if this happend.
who /DivineVegan/ here ?
>>67653528
>drinking glass of water
>spill some sugar in it
>"OI m8 that'll be six tuppence and a shilling"
>>67653656
You're not a commercial business selling sugar war though
>>67650092
The tax on soft drinks should be proportional to the national expenditures on treating people with diabetes, costing billions of pounds.
So if every soft drink cost about 1500 quid per can, they might think twice.
Strange to see a common sense thing out of the UK lately..
>>67653607
I fucking love this board
>>67650092
good
>>67653813
I'm just hoping that this pushes diet soda. That shit is perfectly fine to drink.
>>67650092
Why not just ban them if they hate them so much?
>>67653963
Glad to see there's no 'DUDE ASPARTAME LMAO' itt, literally fine
>>67650202
Id be on with it. Taxes are the best way to change negative behavior. That's why they keep increasing the tax on cigs here: gets people to quit more effectively than anything else
We better have a tax on obese people. In France you have a mandatory health inspection every 2 years if you want to work. Fat fucks will be given 6 month to lose weight, get weighted once again and then put on the fat tax list until they have a normal weight.
It'd be nice if they did that here, I think something similar was attempted in New York but it didn't work out.
>>67650392
Poor people shouldn't waste their money/benefits on junk like soda. It really rustles my jims at the grocery store watching some jobless obese woman spend $30 in ebtbucks on six 24-packs of pepsi
>taxed less than cigarettes
Dropped
>tax on sugary drinks
>to fight childhood obesity
Wouldn't that be the parent's responsibility? Where is all the money going?
>>67654137
What happens if you're 'too fat to work'
Over here I'm suspicious people would just get fat so they don't have to work and can get benefits
>>67652778
Exactly, now and then I get a Vimto from the shop, don't see why I should be paying more when I'm not a fat cunt
They should tax people on fucking weight, if a fat cunt rolls into a shop they should have to pay the higher price
>>67654270
Money is going to primary school sport, as it says in the article
>>67654270
To pay for sports shit for schools.
I'm normally hate tax but I'm actually behind this because it's shifts the blame for being fat to the fatties themselves.
>>67651681
Preach it Leaf.
Eating healthy is so easy and cheap.
To add to this:
Learn how to make great soups from split peas, lentils and other legumes. Eat these 3-4 times a week.
Not only will you be healthier, slimmer and have better bowel movements, you'll save a lot because eating meat more than 3 times a week is absolutely unnecessary and downright unhealthy.
Ingredients for 2-3 days worth of lentil-spinach stew cost me $9.
>>67652507
That's fucking retarded. Sports lose funding unless people consume a lot of sugary drinks.
Your soft drink lobby is brilliant.
>>67650092
we have that tax in mexico too
>>67654351
Can you honestly see that ever getting through Parliament?
So glad to see someone taking some steps in the right direction here.
Of course USA would never try to do anything about the health epidemic :/
>>67653207
Damn Americans. I feel sick.
>>67654270
>tax sugary drinks
>British Sport undergoes a huge turnaround
>Dominate the olympics for the next generation
a man can dream
>>67651681
>>67654371
Buy a Crock Pot/slow cooker, make your meals while you're at work and you save a fucking fortune.
>>67654438
No but it would be nice
>>67654475
Wouldn't isotonic sport drinks also be subject to this tax?
>>67650092
Prepare for a crash in the sugar inustry hen all manufcturers go to artificial swetteners
>>67654302
Get treated for your handicap until you're fit to work. They're already on disability bux so put them in fat camps. Once they're not morbidily obese anymore get them to work or they lose welfare. Or they can relinquish their right to public services if they don't want to pay taxes
>>67654438
>>67654368
>>67654367
BAN ASSAULT DRINKS.
>>67652215
Two rectangles and a fucking leaf.
>>67654655
>The can of relentless lemonade I buy about once a month is going to become even more expensive
They are already fucking £1.40, I WANT TO LEAVE
>>67654426
Sports already have funding, this is just extra
More sports because of sugary drinks = lower obesity
Less sports because of less sugary drinks = lower obesity
Win win
>>67650392
>effects
>can't speak his own language
>expects to get ahead in life
>>67650092
>Britain taxing sugar again
>expecting anything good to come out of it
Last time you did it, there was a successful armed revolt against your rule.
>poor fat people continue to buy soda
>now buy even more garbage food for their family because they have less money
gratz retards
>>67652239
>The only reason to be mad at this is if you're a fat fuck who drinks the sugary jew.
>a fat fuck who drinks the sugary jew.
>drinks the sugary jew.
>sugary jew.
Top kek mate.
good thing i have my sugary drink licence
Just round up and shoot the fat people instead.
>>67653207
>directly poured from can to bowl
Yuck you're supposed to rinse the old salty water off first
>>67650092
>drinking the sugary Jew
ITT: A bunch of statist cucks saying "thank you sir, may I haver another". I'm thin, been thin all my life, I didn't need to pay extra tax for it - and thinking this is going to reduce obesity is retarded. It's just Nanny state BS, next they will tax red meat, then eggs, then dairy. In a couple of generations the serfs will be back to eating cabbage water for every mean...and thanking Big Brother for making sure they don't get fat. Pathetic.
Also - if any people honestly think this money is going to help anybody, you're fucking naive as hell.
> Money will be spent on more sport at school
Yay for the Hitler youth.
>>67650092
It is very telling, when their first call was to put up the VAT by 20%, on health supplements.
Followed almost three years later, by 'Oh lets put tax on sugar'.
>>67653816
Muh dick
>>67654732
Time to take this shit to the black market.
How long till we have to visit our fucking dealer to get a can of energy drink?
>>67650092
Social pressure would be a much stronger motivator. Other nations have similar access to shit food and drink but are not as fat. Why? Culture. Change the culture.
You can't have a society that you want to make thinner whilst simulationsly believing people shouldn't be treated differently for being fat.
>Tfw kids in the future will never know the joys of a tuck shop during break
>>67652774
taxes != prohibition
You know that all alcoholic beverages are already taxed extra, right?
It's an educational issue. Most plebs nowadays don't know what's in the food they're eating and what they should be eating in the first place.
>>67655055
But they lowered tax in the same budget?
>>67653191
>>67653179
Say what you will, but if Hilary becomes POTUS. You're more fucked than we ever were.
>>67655273
>>67650092
Next you will have to pay taxes on unhealthy meals that are not approved by the state. I can't see why anyone supports giving the government this much authority over peoples personal lives. This is giving government the ability to tell you whats good for you and not yourself.
>>67655360
Delete this, they don't like being wrong
>>67650313
Literally this. Buy a crock pot. Drop in roast and veg. Turn on crock pot.
That's all you need to do to eat somewhat healthy.
>>67650092
If you don't allow stupid people to commit suicide by retardation, your genepool is fucked.
>>67652802
Stupid fucking statement.
>>67650860
Mine is the exact same. Literally cannot do anything right. He savages his bread rolls he cuts with a knife, crumbs everywhere. Anything he cooks just gets thrown in an oven or hot water for x amount of time at y temperature. He's a vegetarian who eats no vegetables.
Every night just has some sort of shitty quorn processed crap heaped in tomato ketchup. I honestly don't think he cooked anything before he moved out of his house.
It's the tomato ketchup that gets me. It's something I expect of an 8 year old. Just everything heaped in ketchup. If we ever go out, he demands the same restaurants and gets the exact same meal.
It's fucking bizarre to me how people can be so culinary oblivious.
Thanks Jamie. I actually agree with this. Refined sugar is unnatural and harmful.
>>67653287
It was Bloomberg and DeBlasio
They wanted to limit the size of soft drinks sold in places like fast food restaraunts and convenience stores, so the largest size available would be 16oz (compare to some places like 7-Eleven having shit like 40oz cups)
Speaking of this at Starbucks they don't have small (8oz) size drinks anymore unless you ask. A small drink is a fucking secret item in America.
>>67650092
"conservatives"
>>67651681
66$ PER DAY food allowance???
That's more than my weekly grocery budget.
Christ that works out to $24,000 a year. Hell, that's more than working 10$/hr at 40hrs a week.
Trudeau really is crashing the economy with no survivors
>>67655447
But they've already had 4 children by the time they turn 20
>>67650092
Great, those drinks are for degenerates anyway
>>67655415
Kek I think youre right
>>67650092
When are they going to start taxing tea?
>>67650092
Looks like I picked a good time to give up Coca-Cola.
>>67656232
DELETE THIS
>>67650092
Maybe you can afford to pay the tax on all your mountain dews if you sell your TV and can then stop paying your TV tax. Maybe next year, parliment will implement a shitting tax and a sitting tax and a sleeping tax and a fucking tax and enforcement divisions for all of them until you UK fuckbois cant even wipe your own ass without paying the fucking taxman
Trump for pres
>>67651360
Zero tastes like shit, life tastes like ass and you are a fucktard.
>>67650092
>tackle childhood obesity.
All you've done is made soda more expensive.
>>67651020
it won't end on them. next will be junk food. then other types of food until everything is taxed to all hell, and you'll have to spend 120% of your salary not to die of starvation.
this is how they'll enslave the world through debt.
>>67650092
Goverments worldwide have got all the money they can out of Cigarettes. Now it's time to move onto Sugary drinks
>>67650092
>Be american
>Drink soda often, don't drink much else besides water of course
It's like actually good tasting coffee that you don't have to wait like, 20 minutes to get and doesn't taste like shitty energy drinks
Coke is GOAT
>>67654953
If they at the very least drained it id be OK with it but no. I could deal with them not heating it also. But not at the very least draining it?
They literally open a can of corn and dump it into a serving bowl. Then they pass it around the table and spoon it onto their plates with their main dish of like rotisserie chicken they bought from the store.
Cool. Now force companies to stop selling real juice for £2-£3 for barely a litre of the shit.
>>67650092
Good, America should too, tax the shit out of them. Sounds like a great idea to me. Hell we could even call it the obesity tax.
All for it as long as they leave diet versions alone.
I always have diet if it's a option because otherwise it's just wasted calories. But most of the time the choices are shit.
>>67659940
the NHS just should not pay for illnesses related to obesity or only pay half
It just means people are going to pay more for soda. Cigarettes are $10 by me and they're still buying them.
>>67658101
As well they should, stupidity taxes are great for things that make people sick, hell, call it insurance for when the fat fucks need bypasses and the smokers need their iron lungs.
>>67650092
>Booze taxed
>Ciggies taxed
>Now Sugar taxed (thank god)
Now if only Weed and Hookers were legalised Tories will cover all the bases in terms of Sin Taxes
Oh and Junk food
>>67660135
Exactlt, I would really not be against taxing the fuck out of retarded products that stupid people buy, and put that money towards programs specifically for dumb fucks who ruin their bodies knowingly and then end up screaming about how their hospital bills are enormous. You wanna get fat, go for it, we'll just make sure that you are the ones paying for the medical help you will inevitably need, I don't know what the tax on the drinks will be, but I know it won't be high enough.
>>67660039
Enjoy drinking down a cocktail of artificial sweeteners that'll give u cancer.
Belgium should consider that.
>>67650092
POUNDLAND SAVE US
>we need to tax things that we dislike
>>67660039
>actually falling for the diet soda meme
I forget people like you are real sometimes
>>67650246
>It's really all about lack of education, really.
No, it's not. If I want to drink a sugarfree drink I have far less choices. Most drinks are sugar bombs. I just wish they would make a general sugar tax (sugar in chocolates, sugar in candies, sugar in cookies). Sugar is a poison and the tax is probably cheaper than the healthcare costs I must pay for people with caries, diabetes and overweight.
>>67660554
holy fuck i saw your filename and thought it was a dank meme, so i yahoo'd it and it turns out it's real.
i don't want to live in belgium anymore
>>67651020
>>67652175
>>67652348
>wanting the government to control something because you dislike it
How fucking pathetic.
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Taxman!
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for (Aahh Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more (Aahh Mr. Heath)
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
Taxman!
>>67652746
You are the brainwashed sheep anon.
>>67660488
Yeah I have no problem with publicly funded healthcare, but it just seems unfair to me that people who have poor lifestyles leading to bad health aren't penalised for their behaviour, they should pay something.
>>67660039
>defending diet soda
enjoy cancer
>>67650092
>be fat person
>be fat because I have 0 self control
>will still buy the more expensive Coke because I have 0 self control
>no change in diet or health
>be skinny healthy guy, who likes an occasional soda
>punished for your self control and now have to pay more
Literally just the government trying to make money under the flag of public interest
>>67660656
>we need taxes on things we dislike
No nigger, we need taxes on things that make people unhealthy and leech off the medical system when they can't pay for their unhealthy habits.
>>67660870
That rape rate comes from immigrants
>>67650313
My housemate asked me the other week "How do I make an egg?"
He had no idea how to scramble or fry an egg.
>murka leaves over tea taxes
>brits who stayed continue getting taxed out the ass and raped by muslims
>>67650092
They'll need more money if they're to leave the EU.
The populace will buy their reasoning so I'd say well played.
>>67660930
Then the problem is the nationalized health care, not the poor habit.
>>67651017
Nigger, their obesity rates are worse.
>>67660039
>>67661292
uh, no
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-u.s-most-obese-fattest-kids-by-a-mile-tops-for-poor-teen-health/article/2573993
My father eats LITERALLY only 3 things: tv dinner, sandwich, fast food. He is rich with a plane but refuses to buy real food because he doesn't care.
My stepmom is worse, she LITERALLY does not eat meals. She will only eat snackfood that comes in prepackaged containers or the like. A typical day for her would be peanut butter, a muffin, slices of cheese, chips, crackers, cake.
This is actually why I stopped visiting home when I was in college
>>67660909
>Literally just the government trying to make money under the flag of public interest
Pretty much what has been happening for nearly a century now.
>>67661295
TOPKEK
>>67661416
>this is why I stopped visiting home
>can't make your own food while you're there
>instead sperg out and stop showing up at all
I can tell that you're the cunt kid that no one likes in the family.
The govts justification to tax 'things that make you fat' for your own good
....
Is EXACTLY the argument they can,
and WILL use for preventing your access to safe things, or arguably safe things.
Like internet, drugs and liquour.
>>67650092
mexico did the same with the same excuse.
doesnt change the obesity just the money the goverment takes.
>>67661613
>is a fucking neonazi who posts hate speech online
>"i can tell your family doesn't like you"
gratz dude
>>67661613
I actually couldn't because they obviously wouldn't buy real food and I had no way of buying it myself. Visiting there meant eating tv dinner and sandwiches. If I asked to buy better food I'd be called "high maintenance" and told "you stay at my house, you eat what we eat".
>>67661252
>Waaaaaaaah, I should be able to knowingly make whatever dumb desicions I want, and then have other people fix the repercussions for me, my stupidity should be everyone's problem
People like you are the problem, healthcare is fine, what you are talking about is sick care, and it's the dumbest line of thinking you don't treat the symptoms of an illness if you know what is causing the problem, you take measures to stop, or at least deter what is causing the symptoms. Don't be this retarded kid.
>>67660738
>Sugar is a poison
No, it isn't.
You'd need to ingest literally 4.5 POUNDS of sugar in a single sitting in order for you to have a 50% chance of dying.
Compare this to, say, Vodka.
Drinking 2 450 ml bottles of vodka would kill you outright.
If it's poison, it's a very poor choice of poison.
>>67660554
I still wonder how anything like that has a place in any society. Disgusting.
>>67661804
Wait a minute, is this bait?
>>67661873
>2 and a half liters of vodka will kill you
You have never seen a slav have you?
I find it funny that all of these European countries are suggesting different taxes instead.
It's as if they are all so liberal, they think taxes on everything wrong is a great idea.
I know why yhe rapefugees flooded Europe, it's because even their right-wing just wants more government and less control.
Enjoy Merkel's 1,000 year reign, Yuropoors
>>67661925
>flag of autism
>>67662048
Thanks for confirming.
>>67654125
that isn't what taxes are for, doing that is explicitly illegal
>>67661822
>NHS is fine
>it's okay that I should pay for everyone else's healthcare
>he thinks by raising taxes on sugary drinks people will stop buying them
Dear god, it's hilarious (and a bit embarrassing) how much you think you know what you're talking about
>>67660738
Wrong.
Fat people die early and don't suck up two decades of geriatric care. Over their lifetime they will cost significantly less than a healthy person because they spend 3 years seriously ill and then die at 60 instead of requiring around-the-clock care from 70-90 like a healthy person typically does.
So, if anyone should be getting taxed more, it's you.
All these cucks ITT that need a nanny to control them.
>>67654125
>taxes should be used to change negative behavior
You're being 100% sincere and you don't even realize the Orwellian nature of what you just said. My god, what has happened to /pol/, bros?
>>67662123
>I wanna be unhealthy! This is so like...illegal, you can't control people like this, but you should like, definetly tell people to pay for my bypass surgery, that's expensive, it's only right that tax money be used to bail me out of my poor life choices
The mental gymnastics to justify hypocricy especially like this are just pathetic.
>>67654125
>Taxes are the best way to change negative behavior
You, during your whole shitty existence have never seen a Drunkard, Smoker, Perma Fat...
And do you want me to say how I know that?
Because you wrote something this retarded.
>>67650795
Except you don't have to pay for the health care of all those fat cunts who wouldn't take care of themselves.
Except now with Obamacare you do, and the insurance jews get to take there cut.
>>67650812
You were paying for their much more expensive health care anyway.
>>67652076
I hope when you get sick you turn down help from the evil statist NHS.
>>67662476
How about stop having state welfare and healthcare because it's shit anyone and let people deal with the consequences of their actions rather then have them mooch of other people.
>>67662476
Once again you don't realize the problem here is the NHS. We shouldn't have to pay for your healthcare in the first place.
>but you should like, definitely tell people to pay for my bypass surgery
God you're a fucking moron lol
>>67662256
The people who advocate for taxes like this aren't the ones who need the nanny, they want the nanny tax so they can keep more of their own money, I stead of wasting it on fat fucks who don't give a fuck about how their stupidity effects other people, and then think they are entitled to having everyone else fix their problems.
