https://www.theunshackled.net/australian-politics/talk-of-a-sugar-tax-comes-back-from-the-grave/ Breaking the chains of control Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.theunshackled.net/australian-politics/talk-of-a-sugar-tax-comes-back-from-the-grave/#comment-229 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:38:00 +0000 http://www.theunshackled.net/?p=3270#comment-229 A lot of very good points, especially the one regarding alcohol and cigarette taxes. All that happens is people go without other stuff. When it becomes school books and children’s clothes and trips away, there is something wrong with the ‘solution.’
The problem is not just sugar drinks, it’s all the sugar in processed foods and so-called ‘diet drinks’ – and you get to find out how you have abused your body when you are about 50 and you get diabetes. “But I don’t eat a lot of sugar!” you cry. Then your dietitian shows you how much you eat per day and you are shocked. By then it’s too late for a lot of people, but these people are an example and their experience ought to help others. Talking about it between social groups does far more than a tax, which is cynically received and does more harm than good.

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