Authored by Meadow Clark via Daisy Luther's Organic Prepper blog,
How would you like to pay a 163% meat tax every time you want a steak or a burger? What about when you want some bacon with breakfast, or when you’re craving a ham sandwich?
The Fat Tax That Quickly Got Lipo’ed
A perfect example of a failed sin tax was when Denmark decided to enact a “fat tax” on junk food in 2011. Chocolate, potato chips, cookies, shelf-stable pastries, and the like. It was heralded as a great plan to finally cut obesity rates and extend life.
It was a big fat flop.
Sure, it changed consumer buying habits. Most of them hopped the border and flooded Germany and Sweden with their cash and found out their goodies were cheaper there anyway. The Danish government banished the tax within one year. Smokers do the same thing with nicotine. Instead of hopping borders, they just find other ways to enjoy nicotine.
These taxes usually always fail even when industry scientists tell everyone the tax curbed a “bad behavior.” What they are probably seeing is more of an economic deficit than a change of heart.
People don’t respond well to being punished into their veggies. It’s hard enough to “eat right” as it is. Who wants to be punished into having nothing? It doesn’t make psychological sense and diets are a proven failure for similar reasons.
Another thing that happens is the behavior never stops, so the health nuts of the world pay the full brunt of healthcare costs for the ones who don’t care for themselves, and then they also get taxed should they partake of the devil’s food. Ineffective social costs for everyone!
What Would Be a Better Way to Increase Health in America?
There are all sorts of ways to get Americans to care more about their health and none of them include sin tax and punishment.
Stop punishing individuals. (It’s better to reward or incentivize when it comes to forcing people anyway)
Stop with moral measurements.
Stop manipulating the market with speculations and artificial crop shortages.
Stop incentivizing GMOs and punishing organic farms with exorbitant fees.
Stop artificially driving down the costs of crap food and raising the costs of produce.
Stop removing access to fresh food in poor communities and help find non-forceful ways for SNAP holders to choose healthy foods.
Stop giving school cafeteria contracts to low-quality food companies and prepare fresh foods.
Bring back parity farming.
Silly Government…Taxes Are for Kids?
The government should learn by now that they cannot legislate social behavior. But, this, my friends is probably part of the bigger plan. By pricing people out of their periodic pleasure, it gets them used to the idea of not having it when the item is finally permanently removed like a blanky or a pacifier.
So actually, the meat tax itself IS part of the social engineering plan.
The greater question here is why are all the health studies, economists, and sustainability fanatics trying to get people to live off of so little? Few calories, no meat, little protein, less consumer goods, tiny spaces, cheap clothing, and don’t even think of having a real hot shower! You’re a total Hitler for using a straw at a restaurant because the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is all your fault and you must be socially aware at all times, even when you’re trying to have fun.
Sort of sounds like Agenda 21 or Agenda 2030 psycho-babble doesn’t it? You know, that plan where all the land, water, animal and crop resources will go to a few, powerful controllers? Hmmmm….
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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