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> Whats there to think about it? Don't drink it There are social costs to obesity and diabetes. They should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco and selling sugar

> Whats there to think about it? Don't drink it There are social costs to obesity and diabetes. They should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco and selling sugary drinks to children should be curtailed. We should have warning labels and government funded commercial campaigns highlighting the issue. We should subsidize healthier foods like vegetables and promote a healthy and active lifestyle. We should make nutritional education a core part of education. > But neglect Air-safety to make Roads safer sounds stupid...why not do both. We presently do both, but we underfund road safety and overfund airline safety. It's a matter of economics. If we're spending $10m per life saved in airlines and $300k per life saved on the road then we could save more lives by adjusting the expenditures. > No we hold Airline's responsible for it And I'm happy that we do, but we can still overfund health and safety in one part of the economy at the expense of the other.

nix23 6y ago
>They should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco and selling sugary drinks to children should be curtailed. Absolute no problem with that, but has nothing to-do with airline security. >but we underfund road safety and overfund airline safety I dont know where you life, but here 'WHE' pay nothing for Airline safety, but every passenger does, and flying is still too cheap. >but we can still overfund health and safety in one part of the economy at the expense of the other. I really don't know what a country that is, but here (Switzerland) every passenger pays a tax for the Airport which is responsible for the Air-control and the Security, and the Airport just lets Airlines land when they meet international Security standards, its not a public spend but a private one (from the passenger). And i think it's the exact same in your country.

nix23 6y ago

>They should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco and selling sugary drinks to children should be curtailed. Absolute no problem with that, but has nothing to-do with airline security. >but we underfund road safety and overfund airline safety I dont know where you life, but here 'WHE' pay nothing for Airline safety, but every passenger does, and flying is still too cheap. >but we can still overfund health and safety in one part of the economy at the expense of the other. I really don't know what a country that is, but here (Switzerland) every passenger pays a tax for the Airport which is responsible for the Air-control and the Security, and the Airport just lets Airlines land when they meet international Security standards, its not a public spend but a private one (from the passenger). And i think it's the exact same in your country.