A tax on junk food and GLP1's that goes directly towards feeding the hungry.

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Oofername@reddit

Or we could tax billionaires and feed everyone without taxing healthcare.

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woowooman@reddit

Facts. In fact, just confiscate the total asset wealth of all US billionaires wholesale. That would pay for everything for the whole year.

NEXT year… well, that’s a problem for someone else to figure out 😄

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rightwist@reddit

How are junk food and GLP1's in the same category?

Why would we tax people for a medication that lowers the tax burden they create?

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Sometimes_Stutters@reddit

One makes you fat and one you take because you’re fat.

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rightwist@reddit

No you take it bc it makes you skinny. Literally opposite of the other.

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rightwist@reddit

And? Why would you tax people for getting skinny and thereby imposing less of a tax burden?

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Because it subsidises overeating and avoiding the consequences all while people go hungry. I feel like you’re being willfully ignorant. It’s the same principle as feminism postulating that all of men’s and women’s issues stem from the patriarchy rather than and misandry and misogyny separately.

A tax on fat-inducing and fat-reducing products aren’t attacking fat people and skinny people as both products exist because of fat people giving demand thereby incentivising supply. People who eat healthy don’t use GLP-1s and men who understand misandry don’t use misogyny.

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Key_Tangerine8775@reddit

You do know that GLP-1s make you eat less, right?

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Sometimes_Stutters@reddit

You’re taxing them for being fat

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HyShroom@reddit

It isn’t incorrect to say junk food makes you fat

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Ok_Belt2521@reddit

There is a compulsion among a certain type of redditor to just pass taxes to pass taxes. They don’t think these things through.

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Simple-Dingo6721@reddit

The money would go straight into the pockets of politicians.

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NukeDC@reddit (OP)

No. It will fund their wives' charities that spend <1% on food and 99% on overhead/fancylegalembezzlement

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shroomenhiemer@reddit

Who am I supposed to look down upon if all the hungry people are fed?

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communitypenis@reddit

You'll always have short people

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

Yourself..duh!

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PatienceandFortitude@reddit

The homeless people?

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Tron_35@reddit

Not only a tax on junk food, but tax cuts on healthy food instead. The problem is its so much more affordable to eat garbage than it is to eat healthy.

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FredOfMBOX@reddit

Why GLP-1’s?

Seems weird to me to categorize those two things together.

I’d go with junk food and recreational drugs.

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MxM111@reddit

I think the reason to tax GLO1 is that otherwise it would not be a crazy idea.

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Negative_Handoff@reddit

My junk food is already taxed, keep your money grubbing paws off my junk food……and I don’t need GLP-1 because I eat junk food, I metabolize it.

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thegamerdoggo@reddit

You wanna tax people for losing weight and getting healthier?

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

That is NOT crazy at all. Good entry..

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totallywhatever@reddit

on r/crazyideas

how is an idea you call "not crazy" a good entry.....?

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

I consider 'crazy' as 'out of the box thinking'. Ever heard of that? It's when people submit an idea others haven't thought about and call 'crazy'..

I have a venn-diagram if you need a picture..

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totallywhatever@reddit

Judging by how you communicate here, it seems like it'd be a frustrating waste of time to try to have a conversation with you. so no thanks.

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

You are correct. Judging from your statement we would be in a perpetual verbal fight. If you need me to define/explain words, let me know. Check your Vit. D..

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totallywhatever@reddit

replying multiple times to the same comment... yikes. good luck with all that.

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

Projecting much?

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

You are doing us both a favor, thank you!! ✌️

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

But..'Whatever..

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

People still eat junkfood? Ow, wait, demographics..

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

I for one wouldn't pay a dime. The last time i had junkfood was..hmm..i actually can't remember 😄 35yrs ago? Something like that..

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WillowLeaf@reddit

A lot of is are disabled with chronic illnesses already and are on GLP-1's. Medication should not be extra taxed.

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ImaginaryNoise79@reddit

"Junk food" is a catagory that causes a lot of problems, including some of the ones you're talking about. When good assistance excludes junk food, it frequently means excluding the most affordable food, food with a lot of calories or sugar someone might need for a boost (doing labor while underfed benefits from high calories, diabetics can benefit from a high sugar drink), and ready to eat food (which can be very valuable for those without kitchens).

I'd be completely on board with feeding the hungry through taxes, but I think if the taxes are going to target a particular group this would be a bad way to do it. The truth is that in my country (USA), paying for the food isn't the issue, the issue is that the people in power want people hungry.

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galaxyapp@reddit

We have endless money to feed the hungry.

Seriously, find me a hungry person and ill show you a dozen ways they can get fed, and millions of grants standing ready to fund any food charity that would fill a gap if it exists.

Its not a money issue.

Its largely a polling issue, vague questions about variety and desirability that can label a person as food insecure despite plentiful food, or a willful refusal to accept charity.

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HandbagHawker@reddit

Sugar tax, junk food tax, and hell grocery tax in general, already disproportionately impacts the poor. (lack of) Access to high quality food also already disproportionately impacts the poor. We need steeper progressive taxing not more taxes for the poor.

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TheGruenTransfer@reddit

Nah, tax junk food, use that revenue to subsidize GLP1's, then when everyone is eating less, give the food surplus to people who need it