UK Sugar Tax - It's War!

... not their fault they're good consumers.

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Great film.
 
People don't want to be responsible and don't take care of themselves. That's why we give more and more power to the government. It's easier like that. Thus, the nanny state.

I'm all for free choice, but people want only rights, not obligations and that's why we ''need'' somebody to take care of us. The government has to impose regulations 'cause:
1. it's not fair that somebody who's on a diet, does exercise, whatever ...pays for someone else's bad habits.
2. because of already too much nanny state and government takes care of all people simply don't think, it's ''FREE'' and thus there's no reasonable spending and everything costs much more = MORAL HAZARD

If somebody said: You have one life, live it by your own choice but nobody will take care of you meaning if you smoke 2 packs and drink 2 liters of Cola a day nobody will pay for treatments of lung cancer or obesity I bet we would think a bit more.
In a system in which we live - who cares? I'm gonna keep smoking, won't save any money and the NHC/Government/Other People will pay for that.
 
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As with most things responsibility, healthy living and so on need to be learnt. To be learnt it needs to be taught both by instruction and by having a lifestyle that makes it seem worthwhile. On the whole the poorer and less educated people are the unhealthier they are, the less they care about their environment. The more unequal a society is the more that people feel aggrieved and think they should be helped. When most of many peoples education comes from TV and social media many of their ideas stem from advertising and celebrity culture, we can hardly complain when they act it out.

The larger and more nuclear a population becomes the more need there is for a 'Nanny State' to replace the role of family and local public opinion. If you don't know your neighbours who cares what they think.

I have no problem with my taxes funding the NHS and the NHS being used to treat all illnesses or injuries whether self inflicted or not. I'll not blame anyone in our present society for making bad choices.
 
If a non obese healthy adult now wants to consume a normal soft drink that doesn't have artificial sweeteners, they are limited to two major products - Coca Cola Classic and Pepsi. Even in restaurants, adult drinks are adulterated with artificial sweeteners.
 
I used to enjoy regular Pepsi now and again and flavoured fizzy water/diet soft drinks the rest of the time but for the past month or so i've cut them out and now I just drink tap water and tea. I got really sick of the artificially sweetened stuff and decided that i'd stop drinking them since I wasnt really enjoying them anyway and I heard that the aspartame and saccharine stuff they put in them might not be all that good for you (not that sugar is much better). Like Sabre says so many soft drinks like taste nothing like they used to either including my second favourite Barrs Cream Soda which seemed to change overnight without any notice unlike the Irn Bru debacle.

Now that i've just stuck to water for a month or so I dont really miss soft drinks, I used to drink a can or sometimes two a day but now I dont look for them anymore when im thirsty. It was a bit bland the first few days but after a week just drinking water when I was thirsty I got used to it. I dont know if its all in the head but I feel a lot better just drinking water.
 
Scandinavia owes its status due to years of capitalism, liberation and less government. When they reached a certain level of growth, development and richness they could become more socially aware. Even now, they have a mix of free markets, less regulation which allows them to have a welfare state. Some examples: they don't have minimum wage laws as opposed to the UK, they have a lot of private hospitals and clinics, their education system works on vouchers....
They CAN afford it, at least for the time being, but also with many indicators are showing their economies are slowing.
In a nutshell, Scandinavian countries have Social Democracy, not Democratic Socialism.
 
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