Re: Lateral Thinking
It started as a suggestion, then it was a voluntary thing, and now it's 'if you don't drop most of the sugar from your sugary drink, you'll be paying an extra tax per 100ml'.
Typical strategy, used on smokes, alcohol* in the last twenty years. Surprised we're not on the same on salt, transfats,
* probably also on corporal punishment and seatbelts too.
We'll be touching our toes at the behest of barely sane middle-aged 'battle-axes' every morning before we know it.**
** Yes, another 1984 reference.
In most tribal cultures, what is'nt forbidden is mandatory. We're almost full circle in what isn't mandatory is taxed to buggery or outlawed.
Still, I look forward to sugar speakeasys, a vibrant gang culture, and lots of new urban myths that will keep hollywood in sort of new material for the forty years after the madness is finally put to a stop.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
