Right-wingers don't believe in underlying causes. Drug problems are the fault of the drugs themselves and/or a character flaw of the lazy good for nothing users. They always just want to put a useless bandaid on the symptom. The world is too complex for them to handle.
Even if they do implement such tax, I wonder how many ways there are for rich people to avoid paying those taxes. They tend to be very good at skirting around such things. They even pay people who are professionals in the field of tax-around-skirting.
Word. Soda should have sugar, not artificial sweeteners, and if you get too much sugar from soda you're simply just DRINKING TOO MUCH SODA. Stop it and drink more water.
Debt? This is capitalism, baby. Where every year's profits have to be bigger than last year's or else it counts as you failing, no matter how enormous the profits were last year.
Or is it what media outlets want, for sensationalism and clicks, which in turn makes it all the voters focus on because there is nothing else?
Edit: Eh, writing this I apparently thought they wrote more/other things than they did. Ah well, I'll keep the comment up as a piece of history from my past.
Where have you been for the past decade? The trend is the exact opposite. Dumb everything down until there's nothing left to understand, in the name of "usability".
Oh shit. Yes. I need you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del while pulling the power cord or else the virus will steal your RAM and upload your printer to a criminal server in the cloud!
What, why? I've never heard anyone call a negative effect a placebo effect before in my life, and the people I've told about the nocebo effect have all been just as glad as me that we finally have a word to describe the opposite of placebo.
Sound advice.