The New
Zealand Government is to spend money on a plan to tackle obesity in this country.
Yes they
will spend money, taxpayer’s money on a plan to tackle obesity. The plan may or
may not work but at least it will be a plan.
It has been
suggested that they tax fizzy drinks because of the sugar content.
I really am
starting to wonder how this government actually got into power being that they
come up with nonsensical ideas. A sugar tax won’t work!
Quiet
simply if we ask why people purchase fizzy drinks etc there is a simple answer.
The cost of healthier options is greater than the unhealthy option. Most obese
people are low income earners and of course will look to buy cheap food and
drinks.
These politicians
are so wrapped up in their own little world they have forgotten what the real
world is about. You just need to look at the price of fizzy drinks and fish n
chips and compare that to a salad roll and a bottle of water.
Putting tax
on fizzy drinks and fish and chips without reducing tax on healthier options or
producing a healthier option just doesn’t make sense and would only create a
greater rift in an already poverty ridden community.
Author
Steve Boddey
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