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Question
Should there be a tax on sugar?
Position‹3 of 3

It is difficult to tax a sugar

Sugar is not only a granulated substance but a nutrient in many different foods. Baked goods, candy, fruit, and condiments all have sugar. It is difficult to draw the barriers to where a sugar tax begins and ends.

Supporting arguments · 1

  1. It is unclear what is considered 'sugar'
    When people say sugar the first thing that comes to mind is table sugar, then sweets, fruit, candy, and so on. All of these contain sugar so if sugar is tax would the tax be restrained to a tax, or would it include all things that contain sugar. The question is how drastic would the tax be?