Why Australia needs a sugary drinks tax - Podcast

[@lawjef]

If we tax sugary drinks on health grounds then we should probably include artificial sweetened drinks too given the long term health concerns associated with drinking multiple, say, diet cokes every day. Not as bad for you but if we are discouraging unhealthy, self destructive behavior then a smaller tax on diet sodas, orange juice drinks, etc seems inevitable down the road

[@rogergeyer9851]

Also, highly processed foods. And very sugary foods, like most desserts. And candy. And on and on and on. All I drink is literally water and hot green tea with nothing in it. It's the PRINCIPLE of the thing to me. If the issue is actually health, then they should have penalties for obesity and/or penalties for ALL unhealthy food. This is mostly political and an attempt to make government bigger.