<p>So whaddayah guys think abOut the question?
I personally loved it because I'm quite political myself... Last time it was about teenagers and credit cards and I hated it.
I put and supported it with evidence how it'll help locally, state-ly and America as a whole and supported evidence with other diseases like diabetes, obesity. Also talk about raising the state's revenue and how we can use that money to help make your children education better, help America imagery as a whole so we don't think of "fat Americans" as stereotype. And yeah lower healthcare...</p>
<p>I said it would decrease bad eating habits, increase productive activities because people will overall be more healthy, and as my counter point I said poorer people will still be able to afford food. Somewhere in there I threw in something about using taxes to help education too. This prompt surprised me because they’re usually school related.</p>
<p>I loved it too, but I didn’t support it at all?
I said even though there will be a decrease in food consumption, this is not a fix to the rising health care costs and a solution to fixing health risks. I put if the American government coerced individuals to buy a certain product, they risk losing their acclaimed Democracy. I said there are better alternatives to increasing healthier habits and decreasing health care costs by increasing government spending and appropriating the fiscal policy and budget for health care. Introduce “get fit” slogans and campaigns to educate and aware the American public.</p>
<p>Do you really believe they should increase taxes??? I really want to hear your answers because this is interesting.</p>
<p>No I don’t actually believe they should’ve raised taxes. I only wrote an essay about it because I thought of 3 reasons to raise the taxes before I thought of 3 reasons against the taxes.</p>
<p>i wrote against it because it’s a rather silly law. junk food alone would be a fraction of health problems in the US, raising the tax on it would hardly be a deterrent, and the amount of money it would raise would be completely piddling compared to the incredible costs of healthcare.</p>
<p>it’s a law that isn’t worth the time spent debating it</p>
<p>I wrote in favor it and compared it to taxes on tobacco: other products that have high rates of taxation. I argued that obesity is now considered a disease, a disease that we have to work together to combat: one indirect step we can take in that fight is supporting this measure.</p>
<p>Against it. Wrote about the dangers of stupid taxes and punitive measures in relation to the proposed tax. It was either really good, or completely off-topic. Hoping for the former.</p>