“Fat Tax” Imposing a fat tax on saturated fat‚ junk foods‚ sodas‚ etc. would be best because of many health and money related issues that it could possibly solve. A fat tax could help control many health problems the United States is facing today by giving some incentive to buy healthier foods. Taxing these certain foods may help control the way people eat and in turn change lifestyles to much healthier ones than there are now. The healthier lifestyles would help lower the amount of money spent
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Fat Tax Notes Important Note The importance of a balanced diet cannot be overstated. A balanced diet provides natural disease prevention‚ weight control and proper sleep without the use of sleeping pills. A balanced diet is also important because it enables you to meet your daily nutritional needs and enjoy a higher overall quality of life. Points For * People may stop buying the food if the tax is very high. Since healthier food is cheaper they will start to buy that instead to save more
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“Fat Tax” Not a Panacea “Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360‚000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic level. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”- Tom Harkin. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduce life expectancy and/or increased health problems (Wikipedia). To cut that number
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consumption of high-fat foods and obesity is well established. Mounting concern about the increasing incidence of obesity in many countries has sparked debate about the merit of an explicit ‘fat tax’‚ aimed at either taxing foods according to their fat content or‚ more practically‚ taxing certain foods with a high fat content. Discuss the implications and effectiveness of a fat tax for reducing the consumption of high-fat foods? There are many implications and effectiveness of a fat tax an example of
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taking an unbalanced diet. It is not uncommon for us to take in meals which are often full of saturated fats. In order to alleviate this problem‚ one useful way is to introduce ‘fat tax’ on foods high in saturated fat. In 2011‚ Denmark has implemented the world’s first fat food tax‚ levying a surcharge to food with more than 2.3 percent saturated fats. According to the Associated Press‚ saturated fats may lead to cardiovascular disease and cancer. In an effort to reverse this trend in Hong Kong‚ it is
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Disagreement on Tax for Fatty Foods There is an important question that has been brought out to many people’s attention. The question is should the government imply a tax for fatty foods? In the article titled‚ "why a fat tax will have no effect on obesity levels” Lefever state‚ “Taxes on smoking and drinking do not change the behavior of nicotine addicts or alcoholics.” (Why a fat tax). Lefever is trying to say with this is no matter what is done to prevent something as long as a person wants
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‘Fat Taxes’ In our society‚ there is a massive obesity problem which causes people to die prematurely from heart attack or high blood pressure. So‚ the health experts discovered a way to prevent people from eating foods that might have negative effects on their health. It is a new kind of tax that is called ‘fat tax’‚ according to which consumers are called to pay a small amount of money‚ every time something unhealthy is purchased. In my opinion‚ the aforementioned tax should l save a lot
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benefits‚ and other miscellaneous costs. This report proposes that these costs and problems need to be addressed‚ and one avenue through which they can be is a junk food tax. This report proposes that there be a federal tax placed on junk food purchases‚ similar to the taxes placed on gasoline and tobacco products. This tax would dissuade people from purchasing unhealthy food items. At the same time it would help the nation offset some of the financial costs that obesity has generated. The proposition
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their loop holes. In Denmark the government tried to make a tax on fatty food which they called “fat tax”‚ which was a huge failure. “Fat tax was repealed after a year‚ because people just didn’t care” (Copenhagen post). People in Denmark bought cheaper food that was fattier for you because they are cheap‚ just so they could get around the tax. “The fat tax is one of the most criticized we had in a long time‚” (Mette Gjerskov). The fat tax was very unpopular because people in the country just had to
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Fat Chance for the “Fat Tax” Our bodies and what we put into them is our own business unless someone else is harmed in the process. I can understand a tax on drinkers and smokers because drinkers can harm others when they get behind the wheel of a car‚ and secondhand smoke is a killer of many‚ but a tax on what people eat is preposterous. People are still going to eat junk food no matter what the cost is; look at smoking‚ the price of cigarettes keeps going up but people continue to buy them
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