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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
Also a good point.I was thinking more from the stand point of the customer.Alot of people use the excuse that 'healthy food's too expensive' but if the taxes raised go toward subsidising healthy foods then it would encourage more people to buy healthy.
I don't agree with just slapping a tax on sugar though.I don't think it would make much of a difference at all.
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I was thinking put it in the pot to be used for the NHS, but it most likely would be swallowed by something else like some dumb war somewhere so logically this makes more sense to subsidise other options, although which ones would be debated forever.
If it was over so many grams per 100g that may be a measure that could be regulated, and relatively easily understood?
The other thread was in serious debates called 'VAT hypothetical' I won't post a link on here as your thread is more specific to the issue anyway.