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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine what would happen if we taxed capital gains properly 🐸

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Or other externalities

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish Germany would bring its sugar tax that we abolished in 1973 back. To be fair a lot of people are agreeing it has to come back by now, so chances are good that we'll soon have one again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think with Lauterbach as minister we have quite good chances. I was honestly kind of surprised to read that they are attempting to ban supervised drinking. Didn't think the CSU of all parties would support that

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (9 children)

That's not because the sugar tax was enough.

It's because the drink manufacturers mostly just stopped selling the full sugar versions, which kind of sucks for anyone who hates the taste of artificial sweeteners. Even squash like Robinsons became undrinkable. It tastes like battery acid.

There's only really Coca-Cola left that tastes the same as it did before. Lemon and lime drinks like 7-Up or Sprite almost cover the taste of it, so they'll do in a pinch. Otherwise I just drink water and cider. Apparently alcoholic drinks don't need to tell you how many calories are in them either, so I'll assume it's none and carry on looking confused when I get on the scales.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's because the drink manufacturers mostly just stopped selling the full sugar versions

Which was a result of the sugar tax. They didn't just suddenly drop the sugar content for no reason.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

So now people are avoiding sweet drinks not because they cost too much in taxes, but…because they taste like battery acid.

That’s still achieving the overall goal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's still the manufacturers decision to change the product

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It worked so of course they didn't extend it to other things with more hidden sugars (things like pasta sauce, flavoured yoghurts etc)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

gtfo of here with sugar in my pasta sauce. It makes no sense and tastes bad.

And boxed macaroni and cheese, hamburger helper, etc. NoW wItH AdDeD SuGAr! Get all the way out of here with that nonsense. Stopped eating it a while ago, but people depend on cheap easy meals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I like sugar in some pastas it cuts the acidic down for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Add a tiny bit of bicarb to cut the acid down. Sugar just makes it sweeter and doesn't actually do anything about the acid.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Great! Let’s do the States too!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Philadelphia has a "soda tax" that is effective, but the sugary beverage lobby has spent millions in attack ads and disinformation campaigns. I can't imagine the shit fit they would throw if it were attempted federally.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the agricultural lobbies, which are huge but rarely talked about. They've lobbied for massive subsidies for corn and as a result corn syrup is cheap and used everywhere as a sweetener. A bill restricting it would never make it through the corporatist Congress.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cook county tried it in Illinois a few years back, and it really made no sense.

It didn't apply to juices (even though juices are loaded with sugar) and it taxed sugar free sodas the same as their sugar sweetened versions. They charged 1 cent per ounce for the tax. It was repealed 4 months after initiating it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So they didn't try a sugar tax, like Finland didn't try basic income because opposing politicians sabotaged the trial in the planning stage to make the results worthless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Even starting with HFCS would be a major positive impact

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The comments here are incredible. Are we being botted by Big Sugar?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A billion dollar industry would never do such a thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That, and sugar is insanely addictive.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

back to brown ale, then, Timmy

[–] rottingleaf 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With my ADHD just cutting on sugar seems to be the best diet change in my life period. I mean, of course there's sugar in lots of things, but at least not putting it into tea and not eating Snickers improves everything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Once you stop taking sugar in coffee and tea you'll also notice that both tast so much better without sugar. :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Who would have thought?

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