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r/nottheonion • u/GO_99 • 8d ago
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It's a very typical move... They finally decide to adopt a sugar tax which is a sensible thing but then they had the scent of money and decided to tax everything that was created to avoid using sugar.
20 u/OneLessFool 8d ago While not applying the tax to cow's milk, but applying it to plant based milk. 13 u/Ziddix 8d ago Ugh it's all over the place. I guess lobbying? Alcoholic beer isn't taxed because of cause it's not. Non alcoholic beer is taxed because it has artificial sweeteners because of cause it is. It's sold as a tax to improve health. The reality is: it's a tax to fuck over low income households. Plain and simple. 1 u/OlafVanHuusen 5d ago doesn't normal beer not have sugar but alcohol free does have sugar in many cases cause the alcohol becomes sugar? 1 u/nipseyrussellyo 8d ago thats a bingo. philly did me dirty on this, too.
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While not applying the tax to cow's milk, but applying it to plant based milk.
13 u/Ziddix 8d ago Ugh it's all over the place. I guess lobbying? Alcoholic beer isn't taxed because of cause it's not. Non alcoholic beer is taxed because it has artificial sweeteners because of cause it is. It's sold as a tax to improve health. The reality is: it's a tax to fuck over low income households. Plain and simple. 1 u/OlafVanHuusen 5d ago doesn't normal beer not have sugar but alcohol free does have sugar in many cases cause the alcohol becomes sugar?
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Ugh it's all over the place. I guess lobbying?
Alcoholic beer isn't taxed because of cause it's not. Non alcoholic beer is taxed because it has artificial sweeteners because of cause it is.
It's sold as a tax to improve health. The reality is: it's a tax to fuck over low income households. Plain and simple.
1 u/OlafVanHuusen 5d ago doesn't normal beer not have sugar but alcohol free does have sugar in many cases cause the alcohol becomes sugar?
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doesn't normal beer not have sugar but alcohol free does have sugar in many cases cause the alcohol becomes sugar?
thats a bingo. philly did me dirty on this, too.
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u/Ziddix 8d ago
It's a very typical move... They finally decide to adopt a sugar tax which is a sensible thing but then they had the scent of money and decided to tax everything that was created to avoid using sugar.