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11. What legal justification can be made to tax fast food?

Reply to Bunnahabhain (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 05:23 PM

Jul 2013

Who decides what's fast food?

Are all bad for us foods going to be taxed too?

The problem is while we can all agree certain foods are unhealthy, there is debate on things like GMOs. I don't like the idea of taxing food as it already costs enough and people need to eat. And furthermore, people don't want to be told what they can eat. I have no problem with educating people about healthy eating, but trying to tax them out of existence seems like the wrong approach.

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Has anyone ever considered [View all] Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 OP

Ugh. If people like McD's leave them alone leftstreet Jul 2013 #1

Yeah, fostering healthy diets is a terrible idea Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #3

Do you worry about the nutritional habits of the rich? leftstreet Jul 2013 #4

As someone with a career in public health Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #7

That's nice n/t leftstreet Jul 2013 #12

Demolition Man was a movie... ohheckyeah Jul 2013 #9

Fatasses? pintobean Jul 2013 #16

Don't eat it. pintobean Jul 2013 #2

Comments such as... meaculpa2011 Jul 2013 #5

great, so we will only have high end restaurant chains for the high incomes quinnox Jul 2013 #6

So you missed the point where I mentioned mom&pop places being crowded out? Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #10

What about all the new 'mom&pops' serving double bacon cheese burgers and loaded cheesy fries? independentpiney Jul 2013 #20

And who are you to decide what someone wants to eat? tumtum Jul 2013 #8

Public policy makes these decisions all the time. Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #13

And the public likes fast food joints. tumtum Jul 2013 #14

What legal justification can be made to tax fast food? Just Saying Jul 2013 #11

I don't think it's appropriate to tax any legal business out of existence. Shrike47 Jul 2013 #15

Who am I to say what people eat or don't eat? Downwinder Jul 2013 #17

So we should get rid of everything YOU don't like? NightWatcher Jul 2013 #18

No, because it's a stupid idea. n/t X_Digger Jul 2013 #19

Unfortunately we can't legislate intelligence. Gregorian Jul 2013 #21

So... Bunnahabhain Jul 2013 #22

Yup. n/t meaculpa2011 Jul 2013 #23

One good thing about the fast food restaurants, is when you do a lot of traveling, and have to eat shraby Jul 2013 #24

There are some regional chains that make reasonably healthy food BainsBane Jul 2013 #25

An attempt to 'tax them out of existence' Jenoch Jul 2013 #26