Again it seems like the government is considering using a stick instead of a carrot method to achieve their goals. Why promote healthy eating with campaigns, education and tax incentives for good quality and healthy produce if you can hit certain goods with tax. Needless to say that this will of course affect most the people who buy unhealthy foods for monetary reasons.
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During a cost of living crisis…….
We need to vote these pricks out soon honestly. If you increase tax on processed food, that literally unfairly targets the lowest earners.
About time.
“Government to examine impact of sugar tax And regardless of results.
They will now put a levy on processed food”
Fixed
Anything they can do to not deal with actual problems seems to be the highest priority.
I’m ok with this as long as every cent(including that regular sugar tax), is used to subsidize healthy food. But let’s be real, that would never happen and it will just get stolen money again.
Education is a much bigger issue imo. Instead of just making sugary drinks a little more expensive they should have educated the population on what exactly sugar does to you. Just saying sugar is bad without explaining why, is wasting everyone’s time.
We still have people saying things like calories in and calories out for Christ’s sake. “Only 130 calories in a can of coke”.
Government can’t solve crises facing the state today so decides to examine other stuff.
The government have ruined much more with their sugar tax due to the drinks using additives rather than sugar. Just look at how coke zero has taken off. I would much rather pay the extra money for the decent original.
Nanny state and they can fuck right off.
It seems simple but I never really thought of a carrot approach like reducing tax on healthy food
Pissy little wimpy nanny state.
Great food gets more expensive, people won’t eat healthier and these assholes will feel like they’ve done great but not a cent will be used to lower healthy food prices. Wankers
This is such an obvious attempt to try and distract from the various other crises in the country.
Measures like these fail to address why people eat unhealthy foods. It isn’t just because they’re all feckless eejits, no matter how good that thought might make us who heathily feel.
Such a scam. We already have a levy on certain foods. Some foods classed as luxury items are taxed at 23% while healthy or basic food groups taxed at zero.
Sugar tax is yet another example of double taxation in Ireland.
Irish Government “Logic”
How can we get more popular in the voting polls?
Well, let’s see, the cost of living is a big issue for people, especially food inflation. So how about we put a new tax on food and make it even more expensive?
Excellent idea!
I demand the right to consume natural sugar (cane or beet, not fructose or glucose syrup thank you) in cordials and pop! Those feckin sweeteners makes me retch.
All stick, just like most green policies…
Crazy how we’re just admitting that these foods are damaging but there’s no pressure on the food industry to change how they make the damn food
Could go one of two ways, plastic bag levy worked for sure. Excise duties on cigarettes and alcohol not so much.
Given the addictive nature of sugar/junk food im going to guess it’ll probably be a bit more like the latter.
Ah fuck off. I haven’t enjoyed a Lucozade in years bc of the sugar tax, don’t mess with my Easi Singles.
And what class, pray tell, relies most on processed foods?
They do nothing at all the useless pricks think a tax will fix everything. Which it does – for them.
I think a sugar tax is too simple minded, we need to have a general carbohydrate, sunflower (and all other ultra processed oils), and shortening tax. These are the elements that are more correlated to obesity than anything else. CICO is true, but does not address the full picture of how foods interact with your body in terms of cravings and energy. Ultra processed foods make your body crave nutrients in the wrong places, leading to more eating
7up Free was the same price earlier in Supervalu as Full fat 7up…wtf lads?
So people earning millions upon millions notice nothing and the average consumer foots the bill of big corporations.
Fucking classic