I think people will still buy soda's even with a tax. Cara

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I mainly drink tea. And I'm sure for most people it's not going to make a difference in their consumption.

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Sadly, addiction is a selfish condition and blinds the person caught up in it from being willing to own the problem of their irresponsible or uninformed choices... We can blame the manufacturers all day long for putting harmful products on the market, but who buys them??? The mentality we practice supports whatever flourishes in society... if there is a profit involved and people are participating in the purchase... it will flourish... ignorance is exploited... " If we build it, they will buy it"... advertising is manipulative, certainly... but conscious choice based on thoughtful and careful information would mean that accountability is a factor in any purchase, and let's face it...impulse buying rules... A better way ? don't buy garbage food... let it rot on the shelves... if indeed it isn't so full of preservatives that it will be the same product fifty years from now, or longer... unable to rot... remaining forever as it is today... A better way is to grow up emotionally and take response-ability for the choices we make... and also begin to hold our society accountable for what it makes legal... Taxing products is not an effective restraint for control... Infact, external control is never going to be an effective deterant to poor choices of any kind. It is just one more way to exploit ignorance... Intelligence can resist poison when it knows how to identify it... Self-indulgence can't self-protect...Appetie rules the uninformed, and if everyone else is doing it, so can I... especially if they look good in the picture broadcating the diseased thinking... A better choice is to make a personal commitment to stop buying crap... for convenience... Lead by example... educate yourself and your kids and start a new generation of well informed individuals who know the difference between self-care and self-destruction... don't participate in destructive behavior... Our current generation is certainly paying consequences for past generations lack of attention and investment in greed... Violence is violence... and what hurts our body is violence to our body, regardless of the method of delivery... Food, like language can be used in a subtle assaul against your better judgment when you are not informed of the consequences... Once we are addicted it is not likely we have the presence of mind to consider the effect. Someone once said, Ask yourself if you live to eat, or do you eat to live...??? If you aren't in charge of your choices, someone else will be... that's a fact... So what if the tax on crap pays for reserach... that's a really stupid way to pay for the right information... if you really want to make a difference,make it illegal to sell toxic food...fine the people who make it... use that money to educate the public about what their complacency is doing to them... but of course, this is too logical, too practical to appeal to the greed factor that has come to control our lives... just out of curiostiy, how many people are so angry about having to give up poor food choices that they resent having diabetes instead of considering it a wake up call to health care advantage... that can actually inspire personal disciplne toward a higher quality of health and promote awareness about it to the greater community at large who remains uninformed and at at risk for the same eventuality??? Is it really such a burdon to count carbs? is it really a scrifice to give up chemicals our body can't assimilate? Really, is taxing garbage foods really an answer to this serious problem of personal choice? I don't think so... If one person informed ten people about what is harmful on the grocers shelves, and those ten people told ten people, and those ten told ten each, how long do you think it would take to make a serious impact on what is purchased and what is left untouched, and how long would those manufacurer continue to produce products no one was buying????????????? that would be a tax I could support... and personally, I'm already on it... more and more manufacturers are giving up the use of High frutose corn surup in their products... come on... do something by not continuing to do the very thing that encourages the production of harmful products... Do we really need another lottery that exploits the ignorance of addiction? we can think... then we can act... what is important to you? our right to abuse ourself, or our right to be healthy and live well? humm, diabetes, or health... no brainer as far as I'm concerned...

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Its just another tax thats not voted on by the people we have enough taxes now we don't need any more

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