Posted on 12/06/2023 4:20:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on governments around the world to increase taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
After studying taxation rates, the WHO said Tuesday that it believes the average global tax rate on "unhealthy products" was too low, while items such as wine are completely exempt from tax in some European countries.
The UN health agency said higher taxes would help reduce consumption of the products and incentivize companies to make healthier products.
"Taxing unhealthy products creates healthier populations. It has a positive ripple effect across society, less disease and debilitation and revenue for governments to provide public services," said Rüdiger Krech, the WHO's health promotion director. "In the case of alcohol, taxes also help prevent violence and road traffic injuries."
The WHO said minimum pricing alongside taxation could curb consumption of cheap alcohol and reduce drink-related hospitalizations, deaths, traffic violations and crimes.
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How about a tax on bugs? These people are insufferable.
WHO’s on first?
These people are just against all kinds of fun, ain’t they?
Maybe on the bugs, they will pay a subsidy, to overcome sluggish acceptance.
There is no imagined problem so difficult that it cannot be fixed by giving professional affirmative action bureaucrats more taxoney.
I think we should save money by ridding of all these corrupt tyrannical government groups…problem solved!
tax money.
They already do.
They call it Quantitative Easing these days.
Every time the Fed prints a new truckload of cash they tax every dollar already in existence.
Why the world puts up with it is beyond my meager intellect.
With the US dollar being the reserve currency for most nations, the US can by expanding the money supply at will, tax the entire world
Why don’t we have a tax on government...and “quasi” government...bigshots who fly on private jets and are driven around in $250,000 Mercedes Benzes?
“Taxing unhealthy products creates healthier populations. It has a positive ripple effect across society, less disease and debilitation and revenue for governments to provide public services,” said Rüdiger Krech, the WHO’s health promotion director.
Now, some may think this ‘expert’ may just be spouting truisms. But, isn’t it tnteresting they never cite supporting evidence?
Taxing unhealthy products is as much about protecting public health as CoupFlu policy was.
FtWHO
FJB
LGB
When did WHO start setting the tax rates for the U.S.? When I was a kid, the U.S. was a sovereign country. Screw the WHO, cindy lou.
Yes, how communist of them. This being the entity that pushed an experimental mRNA hobgoblin on the world's
vulnerable population.
Vulnerable meaning non-elite. The elite being those who want to eliminate billions of humans so that the world can be
their isolated playground again.
They’ll just grub for money.
I think we need to tax WHO for acting like they run the world.
“Taxing unhealthy products creates healthier populations. It has a positive ripple effect across society, less disease and debilitation and revenue for governments to provide public services,”
I don’t recall a proposal to tax fentanyl et al.
/s
Tell me again when they were elected to be our overlords....
They can ALL go ESAD.
These drinks are already triple taxed , sales tax , sugar tax and can/bottle tax , not paying attention tax is next
New taxes on:
Telemarketing
Junk mail
People camping in the left lane
Purple hair
Any speech about global warming
Mega yachts
People that advocate new taxes
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