Re: Sugar Tax starts tomorrow.
Originally Posted by
Realist
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A sugar tax is retarded. It will achieve nothing except to make money in taxes the cost of which will be passed onto customers. Meanwhile the evil sugar conglomerates will continue to put obscene levels of the Class A drug sugar in every product they can.
The government should be declaring sugar as harmful to health and should be passing laws that establish a MAXIMUM % of sugar per 100g of product.
Completely right, Realist
This should begin with the manufacturers in the first place. Why do they need to add so much sugar to begin with to everything? It's the same with salt content, don't put it in in the first place.
Thing is, the powers that be and supermarkets don't encourage cutting down the intake as most foods with reduced sugar/salt/fat cost more to buy.
The whole industry needs a massive shake up, not the government grabbing even more tax from people (especially those with children) in a veiled attempt to tell us they are concerned about our health.