Tax On Soda

Many Americans or almost the majority get addicted to sugary beverages. Have you ever asked yourself what consequences of those big addiction on sugary drink? The typical consequence of consumption on sugary beverages is obesity, diabetes, heart failure. Technically the people are killing themselves in a slowly form, the Americans must be responsible with the quantity of sugar they consume. So, what can be a solution for this issue? A tax on sugary beverages would be perfect because it can have reduced purchases of sugary beverages. This comes with the fact than the community can prevent a lot of issues coming with the consumption of sugary drinks. As you know, obesity is considered one of the situations in which any exposed person could die.

Firstly, there should be a tax on soda because it can help to prevent diseases like diabetes or heart failure. According to Dr. Simon Barquera, director of research, policy and nutrition programs at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico and a co-author of the study said “This study shows how important are the potential benefits, not only in reduction of cardiovascular health and diabetes mortality, but …show more content…
We don´t know how a tax on sugary drinks will affect us, to the persons who are addicted will affect in a negative or positive way? According to the source, the main objective for tax on soda it´s to prevent diseases coming from the addicted consumption of beverages high in sugar, also the mentioned objective it´s a reason why there should be a tax on soda, another reason can be than it reduced health care expenditures. The systems of taxes on soda can help Americans in many ways but are we going to be responsible to reach the real benefits on taxes on soda? After all this for our life, I think it´s time to be straight with ourselves and know what beverages we should be more careful to