Posted on 07/14/2021 7:10:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Britain should introduce the world’s first tax on sugary and salty food, a report recommends today.
The “snack tax” could add £3.4 billion a year to families’ shopping bills, with a 60p Mars bar costing 9p more.
With 56 million people currently living in England, it means £60 per year will be added to each person’s food bill on average — £240 for a family of four.
The money should be used to pay for GPs to prescribe fruit, vegetables and cookery classes on the NHS to help prevent obesity and ill health, the Government-commissioned review says.
The radical proposals are included in a new National Food Strategy, published today by Boris Johnson’s food tsar, Henry Dimbleby, the founder of restaurant chain Leon.
Mr. Dimbleby said the tax will encourage firms to reformulate their recipes or reduce portion sizes. He warned that unhealthy food was “putting an intolerable strain on the NHS”, with more than half of over-45s living with diet-related health conditions.
Poor diets contribute to 64,000 deaths every year in England and cost the economy an estimated £74 billion, according to his report.
It proposes a new tax of £3 per kilogram on sugar and £6 per kilogram on salt sold wholesale for use in processed foods, or in restaurants and catering businesses. Britain has had a sugar tax on soft drinks since 2018. …
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Three words: Bloomberg soda ban.
You never saw photos/video of the buffoon? His stint as London mayor? What did people expect other than more of that? (Now on steroids as dictated by his new squeeze, Carrie Symonds, who seems to make most of the UK gov’t policy decisions.)
You borrow the rest from China.
Boris has a real name “Alexander”.
Peter Hitchens likes to call him “Al” from time to time.
Ah yes of course.
And that revenue first came from the US via industrial investment and US retail purchases, because China’s so “capitalist” . . .
BTW, haven’t looked up how much the UK borrows from China. They borrow too much perhaps from the “European Union” . . . anything to “protect the NHS” which shouldn’t even exist . . .
They don’t “need to tax” anything.
And I have to wonder how much “cheaper” it is to even create the flour for white bread versus just milling flour the traditional way and making bread out of that.
The trade with China has picked up since Brexit. In May it was revealed that China has replaced Germany as the UK’s top trading partner.
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