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Originally posted by evenodds
A Tax on Fatty Foods?
By Corinne Amoo
LONDON (Reuters) - Hamburgers, soft drinks and cakes could be hit with a "fat-tax" in a bid to combat Britain's growing levels of obesity, doctors said Monday.
The British Medical Association is proposing a 17.5 percent VAT on high-fat foods like biscuits and processed meats to solve obesity-related problems, which cost the NHS roughly 500 million pounds ($825 million) a year.
"There is an epidemic of obesity in the UK," said BMA spokesman Dr Martin Breach. "You are what you eat and if that is the case the British public have a huge problem."
"Charging VAT on saturated foods found in processed meat products like sausages, pies and pastries, butter and cream, may help save some lives."
Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...lth_fat_tax_dc
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Now this is a great law. Why should I pay the bills of the ailing junk food junkies who clog the sidewalks, litter the neighborhoods, destroy the rainforest, take up space in hostpitals and burden our health care systems with their addictions to shit that destroys the body? Fuck that. Any good law gigs in London?
