"But this is not fat shaming."
People base their conception of good and bad off what the government says. Government say sugar bad. Is that not fat shaming? Call it eating of fattening food shaming. Circle jerk all you want, I'm concerned about the impact, not tight-assed word parsing.
The more something costs, the less of it people will buy, given a high enough price increase and a long enough period to transition to alternatives.
My ideal is revenue neutral sugar taxes. That means for every dollar collected in sugar taxes, you collect one dollar less in other taxes, like sales tax or property tax. In that way, sugar taxes are downright libertarian, as the damages they cause (obesity) are paid for by taxes while inefficient taxes are reduced. Replacing other forms of taxes with Pigovian or externality taxes is uniformly an improvement over current affairs.
Also, a lot of fat people are fully grown children who desperately want to be pimp slapped into eating better. They need this too.
People base their conception of good and bad off what the government says. Government say sugar bad. Is that not fat shaming? Call it eating of fattening food shaming. Circle jerk all you want, I'm concerned about the impact, not tight-assed word parsing.
The more something costs, the less of it people will buy, given a high enough price increase and a long enough period to transition to alternatives.
My ideal is revenue neutral sugar taxes. That means for every dollar collected in sugar taxes, you collect one dollar less in other taxes, like sales tax or property tax. In that way, sugar taxes are downright libertarian, as the damages they cause (obesity) are paid for by taxes while inefficient taxes are reduced. Replacing other forms of taxes with Pigovian or externality taxes is uniformly an improvement over current affairs.
Also, a lot of fat people are fully grown children who desperately want to be pimp slapped into eating better. They need this too.