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Originally posted by evenodds
A Tax on Fatty Foods?
By Corinne Amoo
LONDON (Reuters) - Hamburgers, soft drinks and cakes could be hit with a "fat-tax" in a bid to combat Britain's growing levels of obesity, doctors said Monday.
The British Medical Association is proposing a 17.5 percent VAT on high-fat foods like biscuits and processed meats to solve obesity-related problems, which cost the NHS roughly 500 million pounds ($825 million) a year.
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They're going to tax cookies and cake?!?!?!!? Those are necessary sustenance items goddammit!
They should just do a quantity tax, like if you buy the giant size potato chips or monster box of donuts, which invariably indicate gluttony. Taxing someone who innocently eats an annual 2-pack of Hostess Snowballs (like, say, me) who doesn't get fat or sick because she exercises portion control is just mean.
P(Free the Snowballs!)J
