soda-tax ...is Thailand ready for one?

[Soutpeel]

that is so socialistic...........raise the taxes on everthing that can harm yourself so the goverment can be richer is just stupid.

what pepole but in their own mouth is their own Choice and their own problem..

maybe we should ban or have huge taxes on everthing that are dangeros. eg knifes,fork,glass bottles,shoes,Chairs,stones,computers,tables++++++

it's not the goverments job to tell us what to do....

What a retarded thing to say. My body, I can smoke, My body, I can drive drunk, my body, I can snort coke. Who picks up the hospital tab for your free will?

You can choose free will when you pay the risk tax associated from it. Pay the tax get the benefit from it.

In my case my private medical insurance

Your not in farangistan anymore toto

Edited October 11, 2015 by Soutpeel

[Sayonarax]

Soda has sugar? They're called soft drinks.

[zzo]

I have a friend who was raised in a Thai village. She is about 50 years old.

She said when she was a growing up, her mother stir fried with water, no oil.

They had no sugar. Both were too expensive. Any wonder the young Thais are getting so fat?

[Soutpeel]

Soda has sugar? They're called soft drinks.

I think there is confused terminology....what the rest of the world refers to as soft drinks is referred to as "soda" by the USers

[sirineou]

that is so socialistic...........raise the taxes on everthing that can harm yourself so the goverment can be richer is just stupid.

what pepole but in their own mouth is their own Choice and their own problem..

maybe we should ban or have huge taxes on everthing that are dangeros. eg knifes,fork,glass bottles,shoes,Chairs,stones,computers,tables++++++

it's not the goverments job to tell us what to do....

What a retarded thing to say. My body, I can smoke, My body, I can drive drunk, my body, I can snort coke. Who picks up the hospital tab for your free will?

You can choose free will when you pay the risk tax associated from it. Pay the tax get the benefit from it.

In my case my private medical insurance

Your not in farangistan anymore toto

the cost risk you represent is spread among everyone's premium.Dorothy

and then we have the public insurance system in Thailand, I am sure the higher incidence of diabetics represents a financial strain on the system.

[mogandave]

Another hideously regressive tax, I'm shocked.

I submit that if Thais are getting fatter, it has more to do with increased income than soft drinks.

If you rich lefties don't like it, don't drink it, but why do you want to punish the poor?

You get to eat and drink what you like, why can't everyone else?

[attrayant]

I have a friend who was raised in a Thai village. She is about 50 years old.

She said when she was a growing up, her mother stir fried with water, no oil.

That's called boiling or steaming, depending on how much water we're talking about.

[hawker9000]

that is so socialistic...........raise the taxes on everthing that can harm yourself so the goverment can be richer is just stupid.

what pepole but in their own mouth is their own Choice and their own problem..

maybe we should ban or have huge taxes on everthing that are dangeros. eg knifes,fork,glass bottles,shoes,Chairs,stones,computers,tables++++++

it's not the goverments job to tell us what to do....

Actually you have also a different effect...very clear on Alcohol tax. Only the rich can drink the good (also good quality and less harmful) wine, while the poor masses must drink the unhealthy homemade lao kao.

Actually the socialist countries weren't that socialist...they restricted the population in many ways but let them freedom on what the drink and eat....

Lol. Free to drink & eat what they like, IF they can find it on the shelves and are willing to wait in line for it.

Anywhere else, including Kalifornia, it's pretty blatant socialism, but in Thailand, it's just rank opportunism. Where do you REALLY think the money will end up? And, BTW, in a country where they'll go in debt to buy the latest cellphone or motorbike, or shiny new BMW with the rent money, does anyone REALLY think a tax like this will have any impact on obesity?? As far as tourism is concerned, one more nail in the coffin. Once governments catch the tax bug, it's all downhill. Anything can be taxed, and eventually is, then taxed some more, then taxed again.

Taxed when you make it; taxed again when you spend it; and if there's anything left, taxed again when you die. So says Karl Marx I guess.

[hawker9000]

I have a friend who was raised in a Thai village. She is about 50 years old.

She said when she was a growing up, her mother stir fried with water, no oil.

They had no sugar. Both were too expensive. Any wonder the young Thais are getting so fat?

"Frying"... ...With water. Silliest post I've seen in awhile, even for TVF.

[malt25]

"It's known that Thailand follows the US (particularly California) on many consumer health trends (smoking bans, handicapped parking, banning plastic bags, etc)".

What ?

Never seen a handicapped car park here and the plastic bag usage is off the charts.

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Well → you can scratch one off your list.....This is a local Makro + the Big C's also have clearly marked dissabled parking along with a few banks.....

Never seen one of them so can only assume they are isolated in their usage so no point in scratching it from my list just yet.

"Never seen one of them so can only assume they are isolated in their usage so no point in scratching it from my list just yet."

Start scratching ol mate. You obviously don't get out much. Sakon Nakhon, relatively small city, have lots of handicapped parking signs. I recently drove to BKK & return & encountered several car parks with designated handicap parking.

Cheers..... Mal.

[juice777]

Funny I just found this Thread I was just trying to find out how much sugar if any is in a bottle of Thai soda, dose anyone know?

When it comes to tax on unhealthy food I have a mix opioin, there is 9 tea spoons of sugar in a can of coke that can't be good, but will a tax stop people drinking it, we'll I just read in Mexico it did by 10%, but what are the government going to do with the money are they going to help people who are suffering from illness bought on my sugur I doubt it,

Looks like they are going to have one in the UK soon, but as someone pointed out if you put the price of coke up then people might just drink the cheap stuff what has more sugur in it!!!

Also in the UK they are talking about a tax on junk food, OK then put the price of healthy food down, it cost a fortune to eat healthy in the UK why you think so many families on low income eat chicken and chips 2 pound and you ant got to cook it and it taste so good, but I do see kids eating it on the way home from school and at lunch time, and then maybe they have it for dinner to

So maybe a government campaign is better

[mogandave]

If you think people shouldn't drink it, grow some hair on your a$$ and make it illegal, otherwise, let it go.

[juice777]

I sort of agree with you but when I was growing up it was a treat, now kids have it all the time, and I am by the time they are old enough to understand they have a taste for it, sugar is like a drug for some people, so I think a government campaign is better, actually I think they should start on the breakfast cereals first

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[mogandave]

So you want the government to campaign to tell people soda pop is not healthy? Is there anyone that does not already know that?

[juice777]

So you want the government to campaign to tell people soda pop is not healthy? Is there anyone that does not already know that?

You want to meet some of the people in my old town, I am sure they know but why do they Continue to give it to there kids 3 or 4 times a day, one can is more the the recommended daily amount and more kids are over weight now then in my day, are you suggesting no one's dose anything, if that was the case we would still have choloate cigarettes

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[juice777]

So you want the government to campaign to tell people soda pop is not healthy? Is there anyone that does not already know that?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34948410

See it might be on the way to the UK

Not sure if I agree with it but if the parents are not responsible enough something has to be done

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[billd766]

"It's known that Thailand follows the US (particularly California) on many consumer health trends (smoking bans, handicapped parking, banning plastic bags, etc)".

What ?

Never seen a handicapped car park here and the plastic bag usage is off the charts.

20150529_162540.jpg

Well → you can scratch one off your list.....This is a local Makro + the Big C's also have clearly marked dissabled parking along with a few banks.....

Never seen one of them so can only assume they are isolated in their usage so no point in scratching it from my list just yet.

I have seen quite a few of them in Thailand though I have never seen a disabled badge on a car.

Here is a copy of the UK one.

[mogandave]

So you want the government to campaign to tell people soda pop is not healthy? Is there anyone that does not already know that?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34948410

See it might be on the way to the UK

Not sure if I agree with it but if the parents are not responsible enough something has to be done

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Why does something have to be done?

[juice777]

To saves some life's maybe

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[hawker9000]

It's just amazing how many in the crowd just don't get it. It's never - NEVER - about obesity in kids, new security at the airport, disincentivizing alcohol use, or any of the koolaid dispensed by govts to a naive, unquestioning public. Once govts discover how easy it is to get their hands into people's pockets, taxes proliferate like mice in a grain silo. Any excuse will do. The sheeple suck it up.

[mogandave]

It cracks me up the way rich lefties always want to jack up the price of things to "help" the poor.