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Idiotic Dark Knight Send a noteboard - 13/11/2012 03:55:19 PM
Apparently the Danish government has abandoned plans for a sugar tax while also scrapping the fat tax that was implemented in 2011. The French are planning a tax on palm oil ('Nutella tax' ). Here we have an excise tax specifically on candies, sodas and ice cream.

Do you think fatty and/or sugary products should be taxed more heavily than other foodstuffs? Why/Why not?

Personally I would like to see more imaginative health policy. Now it just seems like people are thinking that _of course_ sugar and fat consumption will decrease by raising taxes. And then when nothing at all happens people can just say 'hey, we tried' and what was done to supposedly improve people's health ends up just being fiscal policy.


Just another form of control by Big Brother. As River Tam said in the movie Serenity, "We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right." Little by little governments want to chip away at our free will, until they finally have us thinking what they want us to think.
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Sin taxes on fat and sugar. What do you think? kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 09:19:33 AM 611 Views
Sure. Revenue's got to come from somewhere. But only after we end corn subsidies and the like. *NM* Burr - 13/11/2012 01:52:01 PM 202 Views
I think they are stupid ideas. Tom - 13/11/2012 02:11:14 PM 394 Views
Re: I think they are stupid ideas. kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 03:28:59 PM 381 Views
Yeah you're right Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:52:09 PM 356 Views
Yes, that is exactly what I meant kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 03:59:00 PM 383 Views
The only fair way to combat obesity Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 04:03:33 PM 398 Views
slight problem with your logic moondog - 13/11/2012 06:56:54 PM 335 Views
Well, I like this kHz1000 - 13/11/2012 07:44:02 PM 433 Views
That... DomA - 14/11/2012 05:54:27 PM 430 Views
I would recommend you read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes everynametaken - 14/11/2012 06:04:42 AM 421 Views
Agreed 100% *NM* Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:52:38 PM 159 Views
It's a pretty regressive tax. Stephen - 13/11/2012 03:34:21 PM 381 Views
This, plus a large dose of what Tom said. Joel - 13/11/2012 08:41:28 PM 325 Views
Idiotic Dark Knight - 13/11/2012 03:55:19 PM 337 Views
I don't think it will do any good. nossy - 13/11/2012 04:54:12 PM 339 Views
If people want to get fat they're going to get fat TheCrownless - 13/11/2012 06:40:38 PM 327 Views
I think we have bigger concerns then Jessica's Sugar Tooth *NM* Isaac - 13/11/2012 08:02:24 PM 167 Views
Palm oil? They want to tax shampoo? Legolas - 13/11/2012 11:03:44 PM 332 Views
No, the tax is only for foodstuffs in which palm oil is an ingredient. I should've clarified that *NM* kHz1000 - 14/11/2012 11:53:30 AM 183 Views
A palm oil tax is potentially a much more complex issue than you suggest snoopcester - 13/11/2012 11:12:24 PM 322 Views
Re: A palm oil tax is potentially a much more complex issue than you suggest DomA - 14/11/2012 05:25:15 PM 343 Views
No A Deathwatch Guard - 13/11/2012 11:42:14 PM 364 Views
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