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Wow lots of um screwed up points in this thread.
Someone mentioned BMI, even though that is bullshit. Someone mentioned MSG when its harmful effects again are scientific and blind studied bullshit. Taxing all unhealthy food or whats bad for people again bullshit and who the fuck can say what is and is not. Pretty sure someone mentioned they better not tax chocolate and then someone else mentioned diabetes or tooth decay, even though dark chocolate has proven to be good for you - plus starches cause more cavities over sweets.
I do not like the idea of taxing foods beyond typical sales tax and CRV. If they must tax it though and we do need to raise taxes some (do not want to but shit, nobody wants to cut crap). I would rather see them have a high fructose corn syrup tax added at the manufacture level. Only reason it is in soda/pop right now is because it is a penny cheaper over sugar. Also if they did tax HFCS they must add in all of its other names so any form of modified corn syrup would be taxed. The shit is in to many food anyways.
In the end we would not really see that tax as they would just stop using the crap and revert to sugar again.
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