Fast food should be taxed!

trojanbb

Only if the money goes for tax breaks to the job creators.
Like extra tax food, give tax breaks to McDonalds to hire more workers.

win/win!!

If only...this is America. Taxes go towards paying the interest on 16 trillion in debt and millions of food stamps

Dawnhasajeep

and who gets to decide all this? the FDA? lol

The first thing we need to do is close down the FDA.

billsica

Where in the Constitution does the government get the power to tax that? Or 95% of the other stuff they tax for that matter!?!:explode:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution

vim_n_vigor

Add a tax to all fast food and subsidize healthy eating propaganda in public places.
They could even add a warning the doors of fast food places like on alcohol bottles and cigarettes packs.

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

With your definition - yogurt and bread, even whole wheat would be taxed. Some raw meat would be taxed. Is that what you have in mind?

tomdVT

Yeah just what we need, more taxes more government more regulation. No thanks.

AJ_Pete

Add a tax to all fast food and subsidize healthy eating propaganda in public places.
They could even add a warning the doors of fast food places like on alcohol bottles and cigarettes packs.

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

So the government can literally live off the fat of the land....
those fat *kitten* have it so easy in Canada.
If I want a $1 McChicken, I have to pay $1.07!!! $1.07!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :brokenheart:

EvanKeel

Where in the Constitution does the government get the power to tax that? Or 95% of the other stuff they tax for that matter!?!:explode:

Are you suggesting that the constitution does not give the government the right to levy taxes?

trojanbb

and who gets to decide all this? the FDA? lol

The first thing we need to do is close down the FDA.

Amen. The sad thing is I encounter people every day who would willingly defend the FDA to their deaths. It's like a slave defending the slaver. Insanity.

tripitena

No.

likearadiowave

not quite as easy as the OP wishes it was.

ucpg

i'm very thankful i live in a place where trans fat higher than 2.0g is not allowed in fast food restaurants. yay government regulations that are actually beneficial

Acg67

Add a tax to all fast food and subsidize healthy eating propaganda in public places.
They could even add a warning the doors of fast food places like on alcohol bottles and cigarettes packs.

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

_Timmeh_

Too bad they cant tax stupidity.

cmeade20

I live in MA. Cigarette taxes have gotten so high here that most brands its about 9-9.50 a pack. I know very few people who have quit. People want something they'll have it.

lolagurlx0x0

It is ... Taxed.....

TheNewDodge

i'm very thankful i live in a place where trans fat higher than 2.0g is not allowed in fast food restaurants. yay government regulations that are actually beneficial

Because there is no way you could choose whether or not to eat trans fats yourself. Amirite?

JuneBPrice

The government shouldn't decide what is "undesirable" behavior and tax us based on that. So no, it really shouldn't.

MeMyCatsandI

Add a tax to all fast food and subsidize healthy eating propaganda in public places.
They could even add a warning the doors of fast food places like on alcohol bottles and cigarettes packs.

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

You're on a roll with posting silly things.

Me thinks this is the same guy that a few days ago called himself kodakdigitalcamera. He closed his account after numerous stupid posts that were not well received by the MFP community. Like eating 10000 calories of mayo. why its better to eat only once a day, etc. He's a troll.

IronmanPanda

Too bad they cant tax stupidity.

If they could they would make a mint on this website alone.

micahnelson

Hey guys! Its a political topic during an election season!

JuneBPrice

Let's not let people vote, either. Yea, they might make a bad decision with their freedom. We better just take that freedom away, JUST IN CASE.

This. ^

trulycrazed

I've lived in both Manitoba and Ontario (Canada), and there are taxes on most fast foods and on a lot of junk foods in grocery stores... soooo yeah. Already done...

lolagurlx0x0

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

So... All Packaged food? Why do you hate me?

rhonniema

Stop.

MizSaz

Taxing things to make people stop doing it is pretty ineffective. When I started smoking, cigarettes were $2.75/pack. When I moved out of MA last year, I was paying $8.15. At no point did I think, and I still don't, that when I quit smoking it will be over money. The casual fast food eater may be swayed by a tax, but a food addict won't.

TDGee

Sure! Add some more taxes, that will get people to stop. It's done a fabulous job cutting down on tobacco use. Oh wait...
:huh:

new_blossom

In Louisiana, fast food is already taxed. We are one of the un-healthiest states in the nation. No one wants the government telling them what to do, they are going to do the opposite. It does not work and wastes tax payer $$'s on ridiculous studies.

I could see a benefit by the government helping with lowering the cost on healthy foods and produce, instead of giving us cheap packaged, processed foods that are of no health benefits. If the government really cared about the "health cost" of our nation, it would do this. More affordable healthy foods for our bodies would also help with lower trips to the doctors office as a whole.

Just a thought I felt like sharing. BUT with all of that being written, I also believe it is up to the individual to be responsible for their own body.

lolagurlx0x0

Add a tax to all fast food and subsidize healthy eating propaganda in public places.
They could even add a warning the doors of fast food places like on alcohol bottles and cigarettes packs.

By fast food I mean:
-anything fried
-with added sodium
-with added sugar
-anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

So the government can literally live off the fat of the land....
those fat *kitten* have it so easy in Canada.
If I want a $1 McChicken, I have to pay $1.07!!! $1.07!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :brokenheart:

^^^^^ hahahaha this. ^.^

JuneBPrice

Taxing things to make people stop doing it is pretty ineffective. When I started smoking, cigarettes were $2.75/pack. When I moved out of MA last year, I was paying $8.15. At no point did I think, and I still don't, that when I quit smoking it will be over money. The casual fast food eater may be swayed by a tax, but a food addict won't.

Exactly. I'm the kind of person who would pay MORE to eat fast food out of spite if that was the rule.

twiztc

I totally disagree with taxing food.

Eating at a fast food place doesnt make you unhealthy if its just once in a while. yes its higher in fat/ sugar/ salt
but most healthy people can handle it. Why make the punishment for everybody.

Its like with most things

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Its only like with alcohol and booze and suchlike, when its a habit and become abused is when it causes problems.

I hate all this nanny state crap. whatever happened to freedom of speech and freedom of choice.

The way its going we'll all be treated the same as that film Demolition man where you cant make your own decisions about anything!!

If I want to die of lung cancer and high cholesterol that's my choice. I pay my taxes and my own medical bills and work bloody hard to do so.