New Posts For Thread: sugar tax on drinks? nine sugar cubes in my can of cola?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-colaJamie Oliver made it easy to tabulate how much sugar is in food. 4g (4 grammes) is one level teaspoon of sugar - or one sugar cube. my can of cola has 37g of sugar. nasty.I switched to pepsi max - but get a coctail of weirdness instead. Chemical heavSugars and edible fats are cheaper than they would be in a notional free market because the agribusinesses that produce them get 85GBP/acre farm subsidies, plus business rate exemptions and cheap red diesel. ( Agricultural assets are exempt from inhehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546633675#546633675Sugars and edible fats are cheaper than they would be in a notional free market because the agribusinesses that produce them get 85GBP/acre farm subsidies, plus business rate exemptions and cheap red diesel. ( Agricultural assets are exempt from inheSun, 25 Oct 2015 14:32:13 -0500the food should be measured in sugar cubes. 4g is a level teaspoon. but a heaped spoon could be about 8g. So sugar cubes seems obvious. put how many cubes are in your sweet junk food ye slobs. don't buy stevia - it is terrible. saving money there.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546628551#546628551the food should be measured in sugar cubes. 4g is a level teaspoon. but a heaped spoon could be about 8g. So sugar cubes seems obvious. put how many cubes are in your sweet junk food ye slobs. don't buy stevia - it is terrible. saving money there.Sun, 25 Oct 2015 07:14:44 -0500On a related note, I think we should use prisoners to improve our understanding of nutritional science. Everyone sentenced to more than three years in prison should randomly be assigned an interesting diet. Like the traditional Okinawan diet, or stanhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546616551#546616551On a related note, I think we should use prisoners to improve our understanding of nutritional science. Everyone sentenced to more than three years in prison should randomly be assigned an interesting diet. Like the traditional Okinawan diet, or stanSat, 24 Oct 2015 08:20:30 -0500Have you seen the tax on Alcohol and Tobacco, I suspect this vastly exceeds what may be required in extra expense to the Health service.It currently costs the NHS 10 billion pounds a year to treat diabetes and its consequences. That figure is set tohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546614985#546614985Have you seen the tax on Alcohol and Tobacco, I suspect this vastly exceeds what may be required in extra expense to the Health service.It currently costs the NHS 10 billion pounds a year to treat diabetes and its consequences. That figure is set toSat, 24 Oct 2015 07:00:18 -0500It's an odd stance for ebul to quote the red flag and not be in support of regulation.To say that junk processed food and sugary drink should be kept low in price because it's a luxury for the poor is in essence social cleansing in itself.We shouldn'https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546614317#546614317It's an odd stance for ebul to quote the red flag and not be in support of regulation.To say that junk processed food and sugary drink should be kept low in price because it's a luxury for the poor is in essence social cleansing in itself.We shouldn'Sat, 24 Oct 2015 05:30:15 -0500You only need to take a walk down a typical working class small town high street in Britain to see the obesity epidemic.it isn't all down to sugar. Although I would be in favour, a sugar tax would be a knee jerk reaction.What the government should dhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546613419#546613419You only need to take a walk down a typical working class small town high street in Britain to see the obesity epidemic.it isn't all down to sugar. Although I would be in favour, a sugar tax would be a knee jerk reaction.What the government should dSat, 24 Oct 2015 01:48:21 -0500Exactly how much of a tax is being proposed? It would need to be quite steep to make much of a difference in my view. Hard to imagine the average Coca Cola drinker going without their daily fix for the sake of a few pence.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546612025#546612025Exactly how much of a tax is being proposed? It would need to be quite steep to make much of a difference in my view. Hard to imagine the average Coca Cola drinker going without their daily fix for the sake of a few pence.Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:01:45 -0500There is also something worse hereWhat is being proposed is we put a tax on the poor(direct tax on sugar) to reduce a tax on the rich(income tax)I am not going anywhere near that...to me this is totally unacceptableI do not believe in societies whichttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546611993#546611993There is also something worse hereWhat is being proposed is we put a tax on the poor(direct tax on sugar) to reduce a tax on the rich(income tax)I am not going anywhere near that...to me this is totally unacceptableI do not believe in societies whicFri, 23 Oct 2015 18:53:15 -0500But do they akabula?????Have you seen the tax on Alcohol and Tobacco, I suspect this vastly exceeds what may be required in extra expense to the Health service.So I would only accept a sugar tax, if there is a reciprocal reduction in taxes on Alcoholhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546611945#546611945But do they akabula?????Have you seen the tax on Alcohol and Tobacco, I suspect this vastly exceeds what may be required in extra expense to the Health service.So I would only accept a sugar tax, if there is a reciprocal reduction in taxes on AlcoholFri, 23 Oct 2015 18:36:43 -0500The only thing Ebul is that others, ie the healthy, have to pay for those who make poor choices.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30604031/sugar-tax-on-drinks-nine-sugar-cubes-in-my-can-of-cola?post_id=546611027#546611027The only thing Ebul is that others, ie the healthy, have to pay for those who make poor choices.Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:04:01 -0500