Fast food should be taxed!

Magnamus
Magnamus Posts: 66 Member
in Food and Nutrition
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.
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  • ElementalEscapee
    ElementalEscapee Posts: 552 Member
    Seems drastic.
  • EvanKeel
    EvanKeel Posts: 1,903 Member
    By fast food I mean:
    -anything fried
    -with added sodium
    -with added sugar
    -anything that sounds unhealthy or you suspect is.

    Ugh, and now I'm going to have to hear people whining inappropriately about the "nanny state" and it's your fault. I like taxes and I'm a crazy liberal, but this sounds nuts.
  • rach7turtle
    rach7turtle Posts: 47 Member
    yes its sad when the healthy food is so much more expensive than the food that is fried and easier to get ahold of. As far as the warning labels...doesn't everyone know how unhealthy fast food places are? I thought that was a common understanding?
  • davidjulian
    davidjulian Posts: 24 Member
    I agree with the initial statement, but "anything fried" isn't necessarily fast food. I've been to some fine dining establishments that serve a mean buttermilk fried chicken and fried green tomatoes. Would I eat it every day? No. But should it be taxed just because it's cooked in oil? No, I don't think so.

    Totally agree fast food (i.e. McDonald's and the like) should definitely be prohibitively expensive for daily dining though. It should be a treat, not a regular habit.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    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.
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    Umm most prepared food from resturants are already taxed.
  • nickyskins
    nickyskins Posts: 100 Member
    I dont go in those places but if people want to kill themselves eatting that garbage then I say go ahead.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    No need to tax them, just eliminate the subsidies on corn and have beef go to a natural price. That's one of the reasons McDs is far more expensive outside of the US........
  • Leslye125
    Leslye125 Posts: 242 Member
    Yessss!!!! This might stop a few more people. Granted even though the population knows cigarettes cause cancer, they still smoke. But hey if we can save just one???
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    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.

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  • TheNewDodge
    TheNewDodge Posts: 607 Member
    F**K taxes
  • nickyskins
    nickyskins Posts: 100 Member
    LOL
  • shirleygirl910
    shirleygirl910 Posts: 503 Member
    People would still eat it and pay for the extra tax, just like on the cigarettes.
  • ChaseAlder
    ChaseAlder Posts: 804 Member
    That won't stop anyone.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    and who gets to decide all this? the FDA? lol
  • trojanbb
    trojanbb Posts: 1,297 Member
    No. **** No.

    I cant think of anything else to say that wont get me banned. Mentalities like the OP's disgust me.
    Yessss!!!! This might stop a few more people. Granted even though the population knows cigarettes cause cancer, they still smoke. But hey if we can save just one???

    The ends justify the means in your world eh? Good intentions have ALWAYS been the path to evil. Disgusting
  • Cocochickdeleted
    Cocochickdeleted Posts: 342 Member
    Taxes are NOT the answer to every woe we have. The government already has too much say in our lives.
  • daking639
    daking639 Posts: 37 Member
    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.


    No.
  • cal_73
    cal_73 Posts: 77
    I would settle for the elimination of subsidies on corn/wheat/soy
  • Babymomakell
    Babymomakell Posts: 257 Member
    Are you talking about an extra tax? Food and Restaurants are already taxed in most (all??) states...



    EDIT TO ADD: I didn't realize you were from Canada.... the USA already taxes food and food from restaurants... LOL...
  • kristen807
    kristen807 Posts: 361
    While I think your idea is noble, I don't think it would really solve too much. People need to make their own decisions imo.
  • dsjohndrow
    dsjohndrow Posts: 1,820 Member
    Fast food is already taxed here in MA. So what would Big Brother do with the money, piss it away on useless programs for people who don't want to be fit and healthy?

    I just want to know why pot is legal in NY but not big gulps?
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    lol
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    We should be properly educated about nutrition first.
  • waqasahmed939
    waqasahmed939 Posts: 6
    People would still eat it and pay for the extra tax, just like on the cigarettes.

    New to the forums, but I reckon that the UK would consider the extra tax, once the total costs related to obesity is more than the total revenue from the food industry

    In that sense, the NHS could become a political tool against the food industry
  • Babymomakell
    Babymomakell Posts: 257 Member
    Fast food is already taxed here in MA. So what would Big Brother do with the money, piss it away on useless programs for people who don't want to be fit and healthy?

    He's from Canada. LOL.

    I am pretty sure all states in the US have some sort of food/restaurant taxes already.... and this hasn't stopped us as a nation from consuming it in large quantities.
  • rcthale
    rcthale Posts: 141
    No need to tax them, just eliminate the subsidies on corn and have beef go to a natural price. That's one of the reasons McDs is far more expensive outside of the US........

    Exactly right. Corn is in everything because the USA pays farmers to grow it. That's why the soda is cheap, that's why the buns are cheap, that's why the beef is not all beef.
  • 8kidsmom
    8kidsmom Posts: 40
    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:
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    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!!
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    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.

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