More than 100 countries impose levies on sugar, but should tariffs increase to improve wellbeing and generate revenues to help tackle related illnesses?
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A Twinkie tax…
‘The cost of dealing with disease is growing all the time’: why experts think sugar taxes should be far higher
Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/sugar-taxes-governments-public-health-economy
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redfox@infosec.pub 7 months ago
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Republican Texas Senate Rafael Edward Cruz will be gung ho when he sees the name. But he will quickly get angry when he finds out it is for food, not gays.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think sugar is a problem, but I’m not sure this is the only solution. Is it a problem because sugar is too cheap, or because nutritious food is too expensive/unaffordable/unavailable? Probably a little of A and a little of B.
It’s also hard to eat nutritious food when you’re working so much you don’t have the time or energy to make it. If people had proper wages they wouldn’t have to work themselves to death to be able to afford nutritious food and they’d have the time to cook it. And the price gouging that’s occurred for such food in recent years isn’t helping either. Nor is the ridiculous increase in rent/housing.