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**Cemeuncex** · 08-05-2012, 06:52 AM

Even if it doesn't make healthy food more affordable than junk food, the tax revenue would be funneled into other health initiatives. And the amount saved from reducing the number of people with diabetes and heart problems would offset any additional increase in state welfare many times over.

Again, look at the lottery. In Florida they say the tax revenue collected from it is responsible for paying out "Billions" in education. In reality, all they did was take the previously allotted money and spent it elsewhere. The lottery funding simply replaced the hole, and didn't improve a goddamn thing. Sin taxes will be no different.

Strong government regulation of junk food has proven effective in NYC. Relying on lame PSAs, public education, and individual will power to exercise has not.

Well there you go. In one instance you claim government taxation and regulation will improve eating habits, but then you blame the government and their public schools for their failure to educate. The reason why public education has failed so miserably is because we continue to cut education funding and instead put the funding towards bombing brown people. Long summers and over crowded classes are horrible for young impressionable minds, not to mention it is fairly easy to become an educator. The reason why people eat shitty food is because they are too stupid to realize it is slowly killing them. I could watch ten thousand Taco Bell commercials and still avoid a diarrhea attack by choosing not to eat one of their burritos.

08-05-2012, 06:52 AM	#26
Cemeuncex Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Even if it doesn't make healthy food more affordable than junk food, the tax revenue would be funneled into other health initiatives. And the amount saved from reducing the number of people with diabetes and heart problems would offset any additional increase in state welfare many times over. Again, look at the lottery. In Florida they say the tax revenue collected from it is responsible for paying out "Billions" in education. In reality, all they did was take the previously allotted money and spent it elsewhere. The lottery funding simply replaced the hole, and didn't improve a goddamn thing. Sin taxes will be no different. Strong government regulation of junk food has proven effective in NYC. Relying on lame PSAs, public education, and individual will power to exercise has not. Well there you go. In one instance you claim government taxation and regulation will improve eating habits, but then you blame the government and their public schools for their failure to educate. The reason why public education has failed so miserably is because we continue to cut education funding and instead put the funding towards bombing brown people. Long summers and over crowded classes are horrible for young impressionable minds, not to mention it is fairly easy to become an educator. The reason why people eat shitty food is because they are too stupid to realize it is slowly killing them. I could watch ten thousand Taco Bell commercials and still avoid a diarrhea attack by choosing not to eat one of their burritos.
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