Tax on Chocolate…
March 12, 2009 – 9:29 am
Some scottish bloke [an MP, and alleged Doctor] is saying there should be a tax on chocolate, much like there is on alcohol and cigarettes - to cut down on obesity.
This is stupid - tax on alcohol doesn’t stop people drinking, the news is also on about kids binge drinking. Tax on cigarettes doesn’t stop people smoking - which they know.
Why not just teach kids properly in school? If a child decides to eat mass amounts of chocolate after being told what it does (like they choose to smoke even though they know how harmful it is) then they’ll get fat. It’s just a form of natural selection.
More on this stupid man, and his suggestion here : BBC
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