Now they want to tax your doughnut!

[Ameriscot]

Actual sugar although not great for you is not the problem per say. It's the artificial sugars and additives like corn syrup. And preservatives in a lot of pre made stuff.

Too many times I threw left over crumbs out on the lawn for the birds. Some of the premade stuff with preservatives last for weeks. Imagine how long it might preserve the contents of a fat cell in a human body.

Sugar is also very bad for you, but have you ever noticed how ants will not go near artificial sugars?

 

[tnthomas]

Yes, I dietary panel has recommended this to the Obama administration in an effort to reduce obesity. You must agree with me that this an absurd outrage. BTW, my favorite is a jelly doughnut, what is yours?

That is an out-and-out outrage! However, I think that the tax money should be spent on health-care vouchers, particularly for the insulin needs of the doughnut eating masses.

 

[Son_of_Perdition]

Reduce the subsidies on corn, sugar beets and sugar cane and impose an excise tax on them. Make it unprofitable to raise those crops. If you are going to subsidize then give it to the farmer that raises other grains, vegetables and fruits. Encourage raising more nutritious products.

 

[Sid]

That's very true. One only has to look at the drug business - the illegal one - to see how price is never a consideration in getting one's favorite poisons.

I wonder how altruistic these proposed taxes really are - are they truly concerned about the population's health, or is it just another way to squeeze money out of the commoners?

You be right once again. Master

 

[chic]

They can tax them if they like... I don't eat them.. or any sweets for that matter.. It's not that I'm a health fanatic... I simply do not have a sweet tooth and doughnuts do not appeal to me.. NOW... give me a a bag of potato chips and we're talkin'

I haven't had a donut or a sweet in over ten years so it wouldn't bother me either, but I suppose it's fair now that they tax cigarettes to try to curb cigarette smoking.

 

[oakapple]

I have seen the Krispy creme donuts in Tesco, isolated in their own little chill cabinets like a morgue! no risk of my buying them as they sell for a ridiculous price as Holly says.
I haven't had a doughnut for ages, but normal ones are cheap to buy.
Ralphy are you sure you didn't dream this tax thing?