A Tax on Pop?

I think this is insane, I get that pop makes people fat and unhealthy, but taxing pop is not a way I would go. I don’t believe that taxing pop would be that answer. It seems to me like the New York Health Department definitely wants some change but I don’t think that this is the way to go. Maybe giving the people more choices like constantly advertising healthy food choices, or having a bigger healthier menu for restaurants and fast food places or even making laws that ban fast food from having more than a certain amount of carbohydrates or fat in their meals. Ideas like that would make a big difference.

In Mary Ward and many other high schools there is so much healthy food, I think it’s too much. I understand that the schools want their kids to eat and drink healthier but I can’t find any pop in the vending machines or any really good tasting food in the cafeteria because everything has gotten so healthy. I think that there should be some more choice, not a lot, but more.

I don’t think that the tax on pop would be a lot but why should New Yorkers even have to pay more for it? It’s not really the money that would make a person mad at this; it’s the fact that there is a tax on pop. The New York Health Department’s ads do have a slight effect on me but not as much to quit using pop. I think women who are trying to watch their weight would probably stop drinking pop or drink it scarcely. The campaign does work and would probably push people to stop drinking pop. Seeing ads like that do make me want to be healthier and I think that it’s the same effect on other people who see these ads. I think the video the New York Health Department released is a little to much and pretty disgusting. I think even if the tax doesn’t happen in America it will eventually happen in Canada. If it does I would still buy pop and chips but I would probably buy it more rarely.