Sugar Tax

Sugar Tax

Governments nowadays are doing the best they can in order to fight recession and make more money in order to fund any projects that will help solidify the nation. If the government will increase the taxes I am sure the people will protest. They do not want their low salary to be even lower. In order to combat these they need to find tax increase that will be for a better cause. They can mask the increase as something that will be good for you because of this and because of that but in the end what they really want to achieve is to have better tax money.

One thing that is bubbling in America right now is the Sugar Tax. What is the sugar tax? Is this tax that is being placed on people who export and import sugar? Of course not, these new taxes are targeted on sodas and any product that will have lots of sugar in it. They said that they wanted to place taxes on soda or soft drinks in order to prevent people from drinking it. If the product becomes too expensive naturally we will be force to keep it out of our diet especially if you are a person with very low income.

Who started the Sugar Tax? There are people who proposed the movement because they want to combat the obesity problem in America. If they lessen their consumption of soda or any product that has lots of sugar then there is a chance that they will lose weight. Losing weight has always been a problem because America is a land of plenty where lots of food can be easily bought at an affordable price. Most of these foods aren’t really healthy like the soda and because they are very delicious and sometimes addicting we just cannot help ourselves but to buy these products.

Is the Sugar Tax good for the government? Of course it is. It will help fund any kind of projects that the government will have. It could also increase the amount of money the government has in its treasury. There is a lot of good that the tax will do but the question remains, will people support it? Those who are healthy and don’t drink these products too much support it on the other hand those who are overweight and just loves to gobble this drinks are against it. That is just a given.

Another thing that will affect that tax is the company that is making them. Of course these companies do not want to lose sales and this new tax imposition has the great potential to decrease their sales. I think these companies do not really care about the health of the people. If they did they should be looking for alternative solutions in order to create the same soda but without that harmful sugar. Sugar is very bad for our health if there is too much intake. It is best to moderately drink the beverages but because of their affordability anybody can drink up to 10 times a day.