WHO says time to hike alcohol, sugary drinks tax | The Straits Times
WHO says time to hike alcohol, sugary drinks tax | The Straits Times
Too few states are using tax to incentivise healthier behaviours, says WHO. Read more at straitstimes.com.
This is utterly worthless in the face of capitalism. I don't drink sugary drinks but when Poland introduced that tax, all drinks prices went up for about the same. Fuckers just gouged us using tax as excuse.
7The tax isn't supposed to punish the manufacturers, it's supposed to disincentivize the people partaking in the vice by causing prices to go up.
Raising prices may reduce intake, or optimistically go towards offsetting healthcare costs incurred by people indulging.
4The tax isn’t supposed to punish the manufacturers, it’s supposed to disincentivize the people partaking in the vice by causing prices to go up.
Yes, but you did not understand what i wrote, i meant that precisely this was wasted by capitalism because prices of ALL drinks went up by roughly the same, not only the sugary ones, so even such crude incentive went completely to waste, not even noticed in practice.
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Regressive as always.
5Don’t touch my alcohol
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