Not a fan of sugary drinks anymore myself but as a kid I used to love a coke Slurpee on a hot day. Yes, too much sugar can be bad for you ( he types while sipping black coffee) but this is another tax on something that makes people happy.
CTV- Newfoundland and Labrador’s tax on sugary drinks takes effect
The province’s sugar sweetened beverage tax — which adds 20 cents per litre to the cost of soft drinks, as well as sweetened fruit-flavoured juices, iced teas, lemonades, sports and energy drinks, fountain sodas and slushies — is in place as of Thursday.
The charge also applies to concentrates, at a cost of 20 cents per litre that can be made after mixing, and will be charged on top of the provincial sales tax.
Need cash…
Blew through budget…
Inventive ways to vacuum suck more funding…
Being your Nanny is damn costly…
So much for that half of all Canadians are 200 bucks away from insolvency…
They must be lying to us politicians, ignore them.
Plugging into trees for that sugary fix…
Could headlined this “Theft, an inside job”.. Wanna bet, many of the voters were fat chicks with purple hair and an attitude?
I hate sugary drinks and they are unhealthy for sure. The more tax I can make other people pay then the less tax I pay. Tax the living hell out of those drinks.
Same for booze. If I really want booze I can make my own and we do. Tax it all if it means less sales and income tax though it probably won’t.
I have a better idea Hannah.
How about we dispense with tax and force everyone but the Elite to become slaves.
That way we get full value from the serfs labour without all the paperwork and bureaucracy involved.
Eliminate the middleman and make him a slave too.
Worked in the old days, I say we should bring it back.
John … I am just reading Stalin’s War by Mcweekin and he was big into slave labour …. seemed to work fine for those at the top of the food chain.
I hate the Nanny State meddling … they can all go and F off & die.
“The more tax I can make other people pay then the less tax I pay.”
That’s not how it works.
Sugary drinks have a health cost, long term. Given that NF provides health care to its residents, discouraging actions that increase health care costs makes sense.
Which is why welfare states HAVE to be intrusive. Especially with an aging population.
I have to disagree with your reasoning.
My body has an extremely high metabolism rate of energy consumption.
And adding sugar into my diet has helped immensely with energy and my body consuming itself for additional calories.
Low blood pressure and I know I should have more blood in my veins as cold draws them more out of my hands and feet into my core.
I don’t have the appetite that I used to have to compensate this.
That’s why I always saw grandad sucking on a candy or eating one of his Malted Milk bars.
John
“Malted Milk”
I’ve not heard that in decades…used to be my go-to chocolate bar….as a kid, hmm, turning 70 in a few days 9/11 in fact. And going bk to work.!
Love to have a box of those in my truck.
Nostalgia, ain’t it grand. 😉
About all we will have left in the NWO.
“…discouraging actions that increase health care costs makes sense.”
Yeah, I’ve heard that story before with respect to cigarette smoking. We were going to save billions and billions they said and everyone nodded in agreement. So they taxed the living hell out of it with promises of a health care Utopia.
Fast forward 40 years and our health care system in Ontario is absolute garbage.
Now they’re telling you to take an end stage highball to save money for the greater good.
The government taxed the hell out of most smokes, outright banned menthol all while allowing allowing the natives to produce and sell them tax free, handing them the industry. Did the government do that intentionally or did they not see that coming?
That is such utter BS. If it were even remotely true, than those revenues would be accrued and reserved for the time when the costs created will be felt. Just like every other “sin” tax, the money is spent by yesterday on whatever will get votes.
Soon, we will all be forced to wear meters on our faces. Someone has to pay for the air we breathe. Then, another one in our rectum to tax our farts.
Boycotts and sanctions against their own people.. All of it always, for some unmeasurable greater good.. You cant control chaotic systems with simple solutions.. Democracy (their democracy, not mine) is all about that these days..
I am of the opinion that we are run by a bunch of lazy people who do nothing but run computer models.. Reality need not apply.. Button pushers who control both the front end and the back end of the cherry picked problem.. A equity wet dream.. Theatre arts on steroids..
While I am still politically active I will never vote for (their democracy) again.. What’s the point when it reads like a bad B-MOVIE script..
No sugar on the insects your supposed to eat?.. Sugar control. like gun control is a knife fight looking for funding.. All the people who think? its a good idea don’t have a horse in the race..
Banning things you don’t do or have may feel like progress in the beginning but in the long run (their democracy) gets smaller and smaller.. Little pieces of the puzzle get removed time and time again… They have the nerve to call themselves WOKE when in fact they are all sleepwalking..
Interesting that taxing sugary drinks garners a modicum of support because of “the damage sugar does”. If that is the reasoning, then why aren’t they taxing kid’s sugar-coated cereals? Much more potential for damage, methinks.
Or just sugar in general?
You can live a healthy life off walnuts, broccoli, brown rice and a couple of tins of fish. Why not ration these via the government and deliver everyone their 1800 calories worth of this in a package once a day?
Or better yet, just blend it into a patty.
‘Tax me, I’m too stupid to make decisions for myself.’
Now do potato chips, chocolate bars, not exercising enough, video games, Netflix subscriptions, cars and bus passes, permission to use the elevator instead of the stairs….
You can buy a liter of lemon juice for a few bucks. Just make lemonade. When they do social engineering like this they should monitor for results. I’m betting consumption does not decrease one iota but the fascists get to feel good trampling on human rights.
Governments want more cash?
Coming soon, sugar out, cocaine back in, and a new tax on the product.
It’s the Real Thing….
Hook the sweet drinkers up to treadmills or stationary bikes for weight-loss power — “Pepsi: A Generation Ahead”.
What you’re looking at is a two fold problem:
1. Government spends perversely. As a result, they need new streams of revenue. Philadelphia was one of the first locations to create a “Soda Tax.” They did it to fund schools and libraries. Whether the revenue ever made it to those entities is debatable. However, despite ongoing litigation and continued efforts to repeal the tax, it remains in effect. The basis it remains in effect is because they need to revenue and can’t think of another avenue to acquire it. Interviewed council members said as much. It’s not that they give a shit about people’s health. They just need the cash.
2. The other side of this coin is why corporations have taken a hard left and back the Democrat/ Liberal agenda at every stop. They are scared that their niche market is next. And, if they support political candidates (doing this nonsense) financially and verbally, they assume that it is a form of protection. It you view it that way, the seemingly nonsensical positions of these corporations start to become understandable.
it’s not a tax on sugar, because both Fruit Juice and Chocolate Milk are not taxed, it’s another Pigou tax to attempt to motivate people’s behaviour, because it worked so well on both Cigarettes and Alcohol
No Joy Nation.
Everything the powers that be do these days is calculated to make people unhappy and remove the little joys from life. It is part of creating a highly agitated population to foment unrest in the streets that can be put down by a show of force. Violence in the streets is a key part of the plan.
When that starts, there will be a bounty on the Pols..I hope they realize this.
…next, it’ll be an extra $.05 every time you flush the crapper…