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]]> http://www.financialculture.com/should-soft-drinks-be-taxed-to-pay-for-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Wellescent Health Blog Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:52:28 +0000 http://www.financialculture.com/?p=136#comment-52 While some may feel that their personal freedoms are being tread upon through the introduction of a tax on soft drinks and other products that damage health, the reality is that governments exist to formulate policy that provide direction to citizens. A tax on soft drinks would provide some economic benefits, but more importantly, it would reduce consumption of the soda by some amount and the benefit of this would be some reduction in health care costs. The overall benefit is hard to quantify, but just like charging people for plastic bags, it does provide some stimulus for people to change their behavior. .-= Wellescent Health Blog´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.wellescent.com/blog/siteblog.php?entry=tis_just_a_hint_of_venom_my_sweet" rel="nofollow">Tis Just a Hint of Venom, My Sweet</a> =-. While some may feel that their personal freedoms are being tread upon through the introduction of a tax on soft drinks and other products that damage health, the reality is that governments exist to formulate policy that provide direction to citizens. A tax on soft drinks would provide some economic benefits, but more importantly, it would reduce consumption of the soda by some amount and the benefit of this would be some reduction in health care costs. The overall benefit is hard to quantify, but just like charging people for plastic bags, it does provide some stimulus for people to change their behavior.
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]]> http://www.financialculture.com/should-soft-drinks-be-taxed-to-pay-for-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Money Geek Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:04:54 +0000 http://www.financialculture.com/?p=136#comment-51 I don't think taxing soft drinks will help. People will simply leave drinks. That will help in improving health. I don’t think taxing soft drinks will help. People will simply leave drinks. That will help in improving health.

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