You need to understand that besides the "food pyramid" being upside down that the more diseases we get from the Gov approved FOOD is that we also are being FED drugs that a side effect of many is increased weight INCLUDING those prescribed for diabetes!! Bp drugs, and almost everyone has high bp because they have impossibly lowered the "…
You need to understand that besides the "food pyramid" being upside down that the more diseases we get from the Gov approved FOOD is that we also are being FED drugs that a side effect of many is increased weight INCLUDING those prescribed for diabetes!! Bp drugs, and almost everyone has high bp because they have impossibly lowered the "healthy" parameters, (ask me about a recent experience family Dr vs Cardiologist drug salesman) have MANY side effects and coupled with statins for cholesterol=stroke and heart attack!!
I refuse to take the statins because nothing I’ve seen shows it actually stops heart problems. My mom had a hard time taking any of them and granted she had a triple bypass but now they have her on one and her cholesterol is below 100 but they want it lower?!? She has other problems like BP and vertigo that I wonder how much is tied to the actual medicine she takes. I have been trying more natural ways to manage mine and had success this past Dr visit. Hopefully continuing what I’m doing plus losing some weight (hmm, how much of that is tied to health problems??) I can get is lower. Biggest problem with modern medicine is not wanting to get to the root of the issues. More medicine = more money for everyone but the patient.
If we think about big medicine as a business, which it is, then if it does not turn a profit, it will go out of businesses. A cured customer is money lost. The whole thing is a scam and a racket to have lifelong customers. Aside from antibiotics to kill bacterial infections, I'm not sure pharma or doctors cure a darn thing.
Antibiotics not needed either! Except in some acute cases, yes. But, UTI’s & the like? Much harm, little good. There are so many natural a-bs.
A few: garlic, grapefruit sd ext, Olive leaf!, most culinary herbs, especially oregano oil (strong! Can disrupt gut flora, tho’), high vit C, propolis, many many more good ones — & they blitz in differing ways, so it’s a multi-pronged attack; you can use them together. Foods, drinks, sunlight (D). Turm, mullein, lemon, honey…
But oregano oil is powerful. I use caution, but it’s indispensable. I read that it’s good if you suspect food poisoning. If I swallow sumpin suspect, I pop one. (Ginger for good measure) Dunno if it works or if I was just paranoid! No way of knowing then, is there?
Exactly the same w/ my mom. Once they get past a certain age, say…80s (or under), HMO Drs will not mention the weight of their patients. And the bp and vertigo is never associated w/ the blood thinners; the pains are never associated with the beta blockers, drug interactions or the other cardio crap the Cardiologist doles out. Never side-effects.
One by one we got Mom off them. First, nutrition & supps to offset the effects of the meds. (I used the Mendel book & others) Second, same strategies to safely achieve the same goals and reverse the underlying problems.
At first, my stubborn Mom, who loved her idiot, flattering Dr., would angrily halt any mention of the debilitating symptoms being side-effects! I finally just stopped talking & quietly set the book on the table in front of her, open to the page. She read. She said, “You’re right”. And thus began the shift. Her pains did not take long to go away. Then the blood thinners were stopped & we compensated safely & naturally. She no longer had to rest on the kitchen counter & use it as a support in navigating around the kitchen. We worked on sleep & excercise too.
As her trust in me increased, she more willingly listened and went along. 4 pieces of toast every morning went down to just 2. Added good fats (curb & sate appetite), pastured proteins, (no seed oils) and way less sugary stuff. (allowed was a couple of dark choc covered macadamia nuts—good fats, good nuts, & good, yummy choc w/out too much sugar — she loved rich deserts & everything sweet. Favorite food: bread & butter. The below example shows part of the diet I tailored to her particular likes and situation; everything in it has a manifold purpose & function.
First a m. sit down , she took an enzyme w/ real juice & coffee. while I fixed breakfast — her 2 slices of sprouted wh toast were slathered w/ coconut oil & pastured butter, ginger jam, w/ grated org. orange peel & cinnamon, served with 2 pastured eggs, fruit yoghurt & some supps. (& enzymes, pre- & probiotic foods) 👆🏼Just an example: All food ought to be seen as EITHER healing or damaging. Forms matter immensely. There’s way too much to relate — so much to learn!!!
But, she began to get stronger and to drop weight. There were other health issues too, and it gets complicated to relate how we also addressed them. But the improvements her overall health and well-being was great for us both to see.
A very careful approach is necessary. The drugs often have to be stopped slowly — in the proper way, incrementally. A weaning period (consult w/doc). They all have various half-lives as well. So it’s imperative that one reads everything available on everything. Interactions are very important, too. This includes many food & supp interactions, too.
I encourage you and your Mom to continue and to never let the b….rds get you down.
It’s not easy.
But 1) undo the harm
2) Do no harm
3) Heal.
A good Functional or Integrative MD can be a Godsend!
Just think about why doctors warn against eating grapefruit while taking BP meds. Because grapefruit LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE! So, why doesn't the doctor skip the meds and recommend eating grapefruit? 💰💰💰 My husband has gotten off his lifelong BP meds and says he feels better than he has in years. He took statins for s short while but stopped when the nightly muscle cramps just became too much and the doc just wanted to ADD another RX to suppress the side effects of the first.
He's done/is doing a lot of research into diet, supplements and minerals, natural cures. Turmeric with black pepper, magnesium, boron, Celtics salt and iodine are just a few things he's researched. It's crazy how depleted our bodies have become in the last few decades and we're either told "we're sick" or "it's just age".
Hubby just going thru cancer rigamarole and they are worried about his bp!! Cancer treatment isn't enough! They want to add cardiac testing and meds too!! And the Drs dont even agree about if his is too high!! We hate everything medical!! 😭
I know. I really do! I was blissfully ignorant for so many years, but had no issues that challenged me into the fray. Drafted by God’s often sorrowing providence & thrown right into back to back battle.
Luckily (but not luck:👆🏼) I was never one to fit into systems or institutions. Couldn’t if I tried. (My shoelaces were always tangling & I trip so I tossed the shoes & sprinted on)
Anyway, sorry if I loaded you with too much stuff. It is a lifelong classroom, isn’t it? All while beating off the harpies, paying the bills, loving the fam and getting the home chores done.
I hope you have good cohorts & also the gratification of sharing your knowledge & seeing the benefits for others.
I think we are deeply related. Thanks for sharing. I know very much where you've been. It's the road all God's children travel, they can't resist even when they resist. 🤗🙌
GRAMMY! I just realized that I was calling you “Granny”. I need new glasses. But, interestingly, I had started to write it correctly because that’s what we called my own beloved long-departed Grammy, & I love that. So dumb me, I self-corrected it to what I had misread.
LOL! No problem, you're not the first, nor probably the last. My given name is often misspelled, too, so it is what it is, at this point. But the default font on substack is, at times, difficult to discern properly.
Thanks! Granny, you are absolutely after my heart!
…Was even going to use the grapefruit example as well! The vitamin K thing is another one that fries my bacon. The very nutrients necessary for healing are what can’t be eaten or supplemented because…the drugs. Don’t get me going!
But.
If we know WHY, we can begin the path you took with your husband. Break the chain. We can help others to do the same.
We know that foods (incl bevs) have differing (and manifold) medical effects both in the body and by interacting (+/-) with, counteracting, or replacing the drugs.
That book I linked just now in the post above is so helpful with sorting through all that stuff & helped me so much w/ further web searches for more info.
I’m also glad that Functional (& Integrative) Medicine is on the rise. I see in future Hospitals and nursing homes dedicated to interdisciplinary healing. The proverbial limp in and leap out! Unfortunately, I’m also seeing the large Med systems (Providence, Kaise, for example) have their “in house” alternative Funct/Integ practicioners, but it’s largely eyewash. In name only. It’s still: drugs & surgery foremost always & we’ll let a poorly educated naturopath tack on on a good diet & exercise plan to coordinate with our prescription blood thinners, beta blockers, implants etc etc etc.
So great to know you’re doing it. God Bless you and your husband richly!
This is where conservatives made a huge mistake. We allowed our free-market principles to be corrupted into trust of big business (food companies, pharma, medical industry). We allowed our defense of freedom to be corrupted into people's right to gorge themselves on garbage. NYC implemented a tax on sugary drinks and "conservatives" (big business lackeys actually) reflexively attacked it as violating people's right to poison themselves.
Thankfully the whole Covid vax catastrophe has woken people up, many conservatives now realize being pro-free market doesn't mean multi-national corporations are worthy of our trust. In fact it's the opposite. Hopefully they'll take that thinking a bit further and realize the libs had a good point when attacking McDonalds, Coca-Cola, and the like as incredibly destructive entities.
I still don’t agree with that tax and I do think people should have the right to eat unhealthy treats if they want. But yes, we should take more responsibility as individuals for our health and know what we’re putting in our bid yes and what consequences that might have.
I don't think they should be banned, but I have no problem with a tax on sugary drinks (or tobacco, alcohol, gambling, etc.) if it's enacted by the elected representatives. These things do cause societal harm, and there's a price to pay for that.
My issue is that the organizations that profit from these vices (for lack of a better word) manipulate the "liberty" people into arguing their case for them. Sugar, like cigarettes, is incredibly addictive and wreaks havoc on society. If the elected representatives want to tax that they are entirely within their rights IMO. If the people don't like it they can vote them out and repeal it. I don't think such taxes are very effective, but that's a whole different issue.
The problem as I see it, is that people have become conditioned into viewing any constraint on their behavior as unreasonable when some constraints are required for a functioning society. It's the whole issue where people confuse "liberty" with licentiousness.
We can discuss if these taxes are effective, a good idea, or even needed. But the idea that a tax on a harmful product somehow violates people's liberty is pretty hard to defend. Yet that is what's invariably trotted out. And it's exactly where the left's caricature of us as Neanderthal "muh freedumb" people originated, with some justification IMO.
Call me a neanderthal (not actually an insult, they were very intelligent), but I am against most taxes and licensing fees. Government has an insatiable appetite for power, and taxes finance their addiction and distort markets, which haven't been free in at least a century.
I don't like taxes either and have structured my finances to avoid them whenever possible. However, "sin taxes" have been around forever, they are clearly constitutional, and the idea that they violate people's liberty is kind of absurd, no one is stopping people from doing something. However, if someone wants to engage in a behavior that has a societal cost, society has a right to make it more expensive to do so.
Whether its' a good idea is a different conversation. It's an important nuance, but one that is often lost with absolute positions.
One concern with "sin taxes" is the concern of who gets to decide what is healthy ("sinful") and what is not. You may agree with the current sin taxes, but inevitably "they" will expand the definition of unhealthy items to things you deem healthy. Some "controversially healthy" items come to mind such as butter, eggs, and coconut oil - who determines if they should be taxed because they are unhealthy - each of these items was at one time deemed healthy, then for a time deemed not healthy, then for most people currently they are healthy. But perhaps not everyone thinks they're healthy, so should they be taxed to dissuade consumption?
That's why I said I had no problem with them provided they were enacted by *elected* representatives. If the population doesn't agree then they can be voted out.
And I didn't say I agreed with them, I said they were a valid measure to defray the costs of irresponsible and/or harmful lifestyle choices (aka "sins") on society.
Like it or not though, we make these decisions based on majority rule (unless they are unconstitutional). I don't agree with my taxes funding the Ukraine war but I don't get to withhold a portion of my income tax in response. If society decides an action is harmful and wants to increase the cost of doing so to discourage it, that's entirely within it's purview.
I wouldn't have a problem with "sin taxes" IF those taxes were applied to relieve the "societal harm" as you put it. As it stands, are the "sin taxes" put to use to pay for an alcoholic's treatment or a smoker's cancer treatment? Where DO all those "sin taxes" go?
The fake conservatives in Congress always trot out the "let free markets work" canard, knowing they are receiving massive funding from their transnational corporate masters (Facebook, P&G, big media, etc.)
I am so blackpilled on the GOP. With a very few individual exceptions, may never vote for these bastards again.
The tax is discrimination..if someone has the right to decide on vaxes they should have the right to eat as they see fit. The amount is not the issue it is what is allowed in the foods and the lack of physical activity
You need to understand that besides the "food pyramid" being upside down that the more diseases we get from the Gov approved FOOD is that we also are being FED drugs that a side effect of many is increased weight INCLUDING those prescribed for diabetes!! Bp drugs, and almost everyone has high bp because they have impossibly lowered the "healthy" parameters, (ask me about a recent experience family Dr vs Cardiologist drug salesman) have MANY side effects and coupled with statins for cholesterol=stroke and heart attack!!
I refuse to take the statins because nothing I’ve seen shows it actually stops heart problems. My mom had a hard time taking any of them and granted she had a triple bypass but now they have her on one and her cholesterol is below 100 but they want it lower?!? She has other problems like BP and vertigo that I wonder how much is tied to the actual medicine she takes. I have been trying more natural ways to manage mine and had success this past Dr visit. Hopefully continuing what I’m doing plus losing some weight (hmm, how much of that is tied to health problems??) I can get is lower. Biggest problem with modern medicine is not wanting to get to the root of the issues. More medicine = more money for everyone but the patient.
If we think about big medicine as a business, which it is, then if it does not turn a profit, it will go out of businesses. A cured customer is money lost. The whole thing is a scam and a racket to have lifelong customers. Aside from antibiotics to kill bacterial infections, I'm not sure pharma or doctors cure a darn thing.
Antibiotics not needed either! Except in some acute cases, yes. But, UTI’s & the like? Much harm, little good. There are so many natural a-bs.
A few: garlic, grapefruit sd ext, Olive leaf!, most culinary herbs, especially oregano oil (strong! Can disrupt gut flora, tho’), high vit C, propolis, many many more good ones — & they blitz in differing ways, so it’s a multi-pronged attack; you can use them together. Foods, drinks, sunlight (D). Turm, mullein, lemon, honey…
I'm with you! I will take anything natural and it will probably work faster and better, too. Oregano oil is powerful for fungal overgrowth, too.
Yep! So are many other antibac herbs.
But oregano oil is powerful. I use caution, but it’s indispensable. I read that it’s good if you suspect food poisoning. If I swallow sumpin suspect, I pop one. (Ginger for good measure) Dunno if it works or if I was just paranoid! No way of knowing then, is there?
God Bless!
🕊💨💨💨💨
Exactly the same w/ my mom. Once they get past a certain age, say…80s (or under), HMO Drs will not mention the weight of their patients. And the bp and vertigo is never associated w/ the blood thinners; the pains are never associated with the beta blockers, drug interactions or the other cardio crap the Cardiologist doles out. Never side-effects.
One by one we got Mom off them. First, nutrition & supps to offset the effects of the meds. (I used the Mendel book & others) Second, same strategies to safely achieve the same goals and reverse the underlying problems.
At first, my stubborn Mom, who loved her idiot, flattering Dr., would angrily halt any mention of the debilitating symptoms being side-effects! I finally just stopped talking & quietly set the book on the table in front of her, open to the page. She read. She said, “You’re right”. And thus began the shift. Her pains did not take long to go away. Then the blood thinners were stopped & we compensated safely & naturally. She no longer had to rest on the kitchen counter & use it as a support in navigating around the kitchen. We worked on sleep & excercise too.
As her trust in me increased, she more willingly listened and went along. 4 pieces of toast every morning went down to just 2. Added good fats (curb & sate appetite), pastured proteins, (no seed oils) and way less sugary stuff. (allowed was a couple of dark choc covered macadamia nuts—good fats, good nuts, & good, yummy choc w/out too much sugar — she loved rich deserts & everything sweet. Favorite food: bread & butter. The below example shows part of the diet I tailored to her particular likes and situation; everything in it has a manifold purpose & function.
First a m. sit down , she took an enzyme w/ real juice & coffee. while I fixed breakfast — her 2 slices of sprouted wh toast were slathered w/ coconut oil & pastured butter, ginger jam, w/ grated org. orange peel & cinnamon, served with 2 pastured eggs, fruit yoghurt & some supps. (& enzymes, pre- & probiotic foods) 👆🏼Just an example: All food ought to be seen as EITHER healing or damaging. Forms matter immensely. There’s way too much to relate — so much to learn!!!
But, she began to get stronger and to drop weight. There were other health issues too, and it gets complicated to relate how we also addressed them. But the improvements her overall health and well-being was great for us both to see.
A very careful approach is necessary. The drugs often have to be stopped slowly — in the proper way, incrementally. A weaning period (consult w/doc). They all have various half-lives as well. So it’s imperative that one reads everything available on everything. Interactions are very important, too. This includes many food & supp interactions, too.
I encourage you and your Mom to continue and to never let the b….rds get you down.
It’s not easy.
But 1) undo the harm
2) Do no harm
3) Heal.
A good Functional or Integrative MD can be a Godsend!
What is the Mendel book you refer to? Your mom is blessed with your guidance.
Thank you! That began over 10 years ago. Mom’s gone now.
But it was a great blessing to me to have that time with her.
I apologize. It is MINDELL, Earl. A book called “Prescription Alternatives” https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Alternatives-Hundreds-Prescription-Free-Remedies/dp/0071600310
It’s old now, but still a immensely helpful — invaluable. Well-organized & foundationally informative & a great starting point for web searches.
Amazon has copies. The newest (>decade old) edition is there —
Peace, Peace!
✝️🙏🏽🕊💌
Just think about why doctors warn against eating grapefruit while taking BP meds. Because grapefruit LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE! So, why doesn't the doctor skip the meds and recommend eating grapefruit? 💰💰💰 My husband has gotten off his lifelong BP meds and says he feels better than he has in years. He took statins for s short while but stopped when the nightly muscle cramps just became too much and the doc just wanted to ADD another RX to suppress the side effects of the first.
He's done/is doing a lot of research into diet, supplements and minerals, natural cures. Turmeric with black pepper, magnesium, boron, Celtics salt and iodine are just a few things he's researched. It's crazy how depleted our bodies have become in the last few decades and we're either told "we're sick" or "it's just age".
Hubby just going thru cancer rigamarole and they are worried about his bp!! Cancer treatment isn't enough! They want to add cardiac testing and meds too!! And the Drs dont even agree about if his is too high!! We hate everything medical!! 😭
RJ — Please read Granny’s posts above, & mine too (some just now),👆🏼👇🏼
Also look up how they’ve adjusted DOWN several markers for high BP & other ones they test for in recent years. Embark on that life-without-the-AMA
journey.
Find a doc who knows this stuff wrt hubby’s cancer. There’s a world of non-toxic alternatives out there.
Ask your present docs for ALL info & stats on their recommendations.
The journey is rigorous in time & effort & I hope you search & can find a knowledgeable professional ally in whose hands he can be trusted.
I don’t have time now, but I will try to find & pass on what may be helpful to you. I’ll save your post link & can do it here.
Blessings! ✝️🕊🙏🏽👆🏼💌
♥️ thank you so much! We are up to our eyeballs in reading. We've been fighting medical establishment for 35 years. It's never over.
I know. I really do! I was blissfully ignorant for so many years, but had no issues that challenged me into the fray. Drafted by God’s often sorrowing providence & thrown right into back to back battle.
Luckily (but not luck:👆🏼) I was never one to fit into systems or institutions. Couldn’t if I tried. (My shoelaces were always tangling & I trip so I tossed the shoes & sprinted on)
Anyway, sorry if I loaded you with too much stuff. It is a lifelong classroom, isn’t it? All while beating off the harpies, paying the bills, loving the fam and getting the home chores done.
I hope you have good cohorts & also the gratification of sharing your knowledge & seeing the benefits for others.
Take care!
I think we are deeply related. Thanks for sharing. I know very much where you've been. It's the road all God's children travel, they can't resist even when they resist. 🤗🙌
GRAMMY! I just realized that I was calling you “Granny”. I need new glasses. But, interestingly, I had started to write it correctly because that’s what we called my own beloved long-departed Grammy, & I love that. So dumb me, I self-corrected it to what I had misread.
…Silly addendum here, but wanted to note.
Blessings!!
LOL! No problem, you're not the first, nor probably the last. My given name is often misspelled, too, so it is what it is, at this point. But the default font on substack is, at times, difficult to discern properly.
nn vs mm
Grammy is what my grands call me, too!
Blessings back! 😍
Thanks! Granny, you are absolutely after my heart!
…Was even going to use the grapefruit example as well! The vitamin K thing is another one that fries my bacon. The very nutrients necessary for healing are what can’t be eaten or supplemented because…the drugs. Don’t get me going!
But.
If we know WHY, we can begin the path you took with your husband. Break the chain. We can help others to do the same.
We know that foods (incl bevs) have differing (and manifold) medical effects both in the body and by interacting (+/-) with, counteracting, or replacing the drugs.
That book I linked just now in the post above is so helpful with sorting through all that stuff & helped me so much w/ further web searches for more info.
I’m also glad that Functional (& Integrative) Medicine is on the rise. I see in future Hospitals and nursing homes dedicated to interdisciplinary healing. The proverbial limp in and leap out! Unfortunately, I’m also seeing the large Med systems (Providence, Kaise, for example) have their “in house” alternative Funct/Integ practicioners, but it’s largely eyewash. In name only. It’s still: drugs & surgery foremost always & we’ll let a poorly educated naturopath tack on on a good diet & exercise plan to coordinate with our prescription blood thinners, beta blockers, implants etc etc etc.
So great to know you’re doing it. God Bless you and your husband richly!
——
Reposting that link here. Old but excellent as a basic resource. https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Alternatives-Hundreds-Prescription-Free-Remedies/dp/0071600310
🙏🏽✝️🕊💌🌻
I do understand that, it's a vicious cycle.
This is where conservatives made a huge mistake. We allowed our free-market principles to be corrupted into trust of big business (food companies, pharma, medical industry). We allowed our defense of freedom to be corrupted into people's right to gorge themselves on garbage. NYC implemented a tax on sugary drinks and "conservatives" (big business lackeys actually) reflexively attacked it as violating people's right to poison themselves.
Thankfully the whole Covid vax catastrophe has woken people up, many conservatives now realize being pro-free market doesn't mean multi-national corporations are worthy of our trust. In fact it's the opposite. Hopefully they'll take that thinking a bit further and realize the libs had a good point when attacking McDonalds, Coca-Cola, and the like as incredibly destructive entities.
I still don’t agree with that tax and I do think people should have the right to eat unhealthy treats if they want. But yes, we should take more responsibility as individuals for our health and know what we’re putting in our bid yes and what consequences that might have.
I don't think they should be banned, but I have no problem with a tax on sugary drinks (or tobacco, alcohol, gambling, etc.) if it's enacted by the elected representatives. These things do cause societal harm, and there's a price to pay for that.
My issue is that the organizations that profit from these vices (for lack of a better word) manipulate the "liberty" people into arguing their case for them. Sugar, like cigarettes, is incredibly addictive and wreaks havoc on society. If the elected representatives want to tax that they are entirely within their rights IMO. If the people don't like it they can vote them out and repeal it. I don't think such taxes are very effective, but that's a whole different issue.
The problem as I see it, is that people have become conditioned into viewing any constraint on their behavior as unreasonable when some constraints are required for a functioning society. It's the whole issue where people confuse "liberty" with licentiousness.
We can discuss if these taxes are effective, a good idea, or even needed. But the idea that a tax on a harmful product somehow violates people's liberty is pretty hard to defend. Yet that is what's invariably trotted out. And it's exactly where the left's caricature of us as Neanderthal "muh freedumb" people originated, with some justification IMO.
Call me a neanderthal (not actually an insult, they were very intelligent), but I am against most taxes and licensing fees. Government has an insatiable appetite for power, and taxes finance their addiction and distort markets, which haven't been free in at least a century.
I don't like taxes either and have structured my finances to avoid them whenever possible. However, "sin taxes" have been around forever, they are clearly constitutional, and the idea that they violate people's liberty is kind of absurd, no one is stopping people from doing something. However, if someone wants to engage in a behavior that has a societal cost, society has a right to make it more expensive to do so.
Whether its' a good idea is a different conversation. It's an important nuance, but one that is often lost with absolute positions.
One concern with "sin taxes" is the concern of who gets to decide what is healthy ("sinful") and what is not. You may agree with the current sin taxes, but inevitably "they" will expand the definition of unhealthy items to things you deem healthy. Some "controversially healthy" items come to mind such as butter, eggs, and coconut oil - who determines if they should be taxed because they are unhealthy - each of these items was at one time deemed healthy, then for a time deemed not healthy, then for most people currently they are healthy. But perhaps not everyone thinks they're healthy, so should they be taxed to dissuade consumption?
That's why I said I had no problem with them provided they were enacted by *elected* representatives. If the population doesn't agree then they can be voted out.
And I didn't say I agreed with them, I said they were a valid measure to defray the costs of irresponsible and/or harmful lifestyle choices (aka "sins") on society.
Like it or not though, we make these decisions based on majority rule (unless they are unconstitutional). I don't agree with my taxes funding the Ukraine war but I don't get to withhold a portion of my income tax in response. If society decides an action is harmful and wants to increase the cost of doing so to discourage it, that's entirely within it's purview.
I wouldn't have a problem with "sin taxes" IF those taxes were applied to relieve the "societal harm" as you put it. As it stands, are the "sin taxes" put to use to pay for an alcoholic's treatment or a smoker's cancer treatment? Where DO all those "sin taxes" go?
Nailed it.
The fake conservatives in Congress always trot out the "let free markets work" canard, knowing they are receiving massive funding from their transnational corporate masters (Facebook, P&G, big media, etc.)
I am so blackpilled on the GOP. With a very few individual exceptions, may never vote for these bastards again.
The tax is discrimination..if someone has the right to decide on vaxes they should have the right to eat as they see fit. The amount is not the issue it is what is allowed in the foods and the lack of physical activity
A case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".