The article
in question talks about a new sugar tax that the UK will introduce on the soft
drinks industry to fight against child obesity.
It will be
aimed at soft drinks, but they said that some drinks will be exempt from the
scheme.
Office for
Budgetary Responsibility suggests levying at 18p and 24p per liter.
Finally Mr.
Osborne said the money raised will be spent on increasing the funding for sport
in primary schools.
I would
like to center your attention in sugar. A tax only for sugar? Do you agree that
very probably behind this sugar tax there another main interest than increasing
the funding for sport in primary school? I don’t know which one; perhaps the
money raised will be used for something else. In fact, this usually happens,
for example Spain did it with a freeway; for financed it the state put
turnpikes. After end the reimbursement the state doesn’t remove it.
A better
solution could raise awareness of the problem among the general public instead
of tax the sugar. For example, they should put in every aliment with a high
quantity of sugar a picture showing how many spoons of sugar there in.
Sometimes a
picture says more than words, in this case than a tax.
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