{"id":1102,"date":"2017-04-13T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T05:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvpan.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2017-04-13T01:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T05:27:31","slug":"can-really-afford-beverage-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvpan.com\/can-really-afford-beverage-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we really afford the Beverage Tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The WV beverage tax guys are spending a lot of money on advertising. So you’ve probably seen some stuff about how that tax is gonna hurt local business and drive people to buy drinks in other states. Well that’s a nice thought and all but who might be paying for a bunch of ads that support everyone buying sugar water? It’s probably not all the businesses that stand a chance of losing a small amount of business(no honey don’t grab that $27 dollar “Red Dull Mega Monster I’m Still Tired” here, wait till we drive an hour away to another state). If I had to guess, it’s people that stand a much better chance of losing way more money.<\/p>\n
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I wonder if\u00a0this is anything\u00a0like in Mexico, where they are trying to implement a much higher beverage tax in an attempt to save their people from an\u00a0addiction to sugar water. The sugar water companies have taken advantage of the people down there so badly, people are giving it to their infants. Children are getting all of their teeth removed by age 5 and 10 because of the sugar drinks. Sugar knocks the good bacteria out of our gut, once this happens, our body can’t absorb nutrients\u00a0from the food and food-like products\u00a0we eat. Our teeth rot and our organs and glands start shutting down, leading to obesity and all types of issues. Check out how ^@#ed up Mexico is from sugar water by watching Jamie Oliver’s Sugar Rush Documentary on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0it’s just under an hour and really good. These people have billboards for sugar water in their communities that mimic their attire and culture. Then these people offer this sugar water to\u00a0something as part of their culture and drink it to be prosperous, it’s crazy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maybe it’s because I’m a health nut but taxing sugar water sounds pretty awesome to me. I got my first taste of the\u00a0poor health conditions\u00a0this state is known<\/a> for when I worked at Food Lion for a few months. A little girl, maybe 7-9 years old weighing in at 140+ comes running down the aisle yelling “Caaaaake!” After her mom finally caught up, they left with 2 huge cakes in their cart full of everything but food. They even had a few cases of liquid sugar hanging over the edge of the cart like pros. That kid has a very slim chance at living a health life, all because of an addiction to sugar.<\/p>\n I think sourcing clean plain water is expensive enough, charging people that willingly harm themselves a little extra to pay for medical schooling infrastructure sounds pretty cool to me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSo maybe this beverage tax is a good thing??<\/h3>\n