“My son’s death is something I will never stop fighting for in preventing other parents from going through the same heart breaking tragedy”, said the mother of John Kaye who died from heart attack at the age of 10 due to being obese. Having increased incredibly in the past thirty years, obesity and overweight has taken over the lives of millions of children leading to extremely serious health consequences. Obesity is not only a life threatening issue but also a serious social, environmental, and psychological problem that affects people of all ages and groups. This has lead to the solution of placing fat taxes on unhealthy foods. In this essay i will appraise on how suitable fat tax is as a solution to dealing with obesity and propose better ways to solve this issue.
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Generally stating, the low-income population spend most their annual earnings on buying unhealthy food taxes, and this is unethical since food is essential unlike cigarettes and alcohol .low-income individuals consume more fast food than high-income ones, and it is them who are at higher risk of various diseases. However with fat taxes in place this may change the lifestyles and consumption behaviours of low-income people who would be having several health benefits, but may lead to high-income people consuming more fast food from the typical assumption that the cheaper the food the worse the quality and the more expensive the food the better its quality is. Last point that may show how fat tax may not be the best solution to this problem is that fact that like many other taxes, this tax puts both the seller and the producer in the worse position. In case of the seller, he would need to transfer sections of his trade benefit to the government as tax revenues, therefore the seller may provide and supply food less than
Several researches demonstrate that …show more content…
Generally stating, the low-income population spend most their annual earnings on buying unhealthy food taxes, and this is unethical since food is essential unlike cigarettes and alcohol .low-income individuals consume more fast food than high-income ones, and it is them who are at higher risk of various diseases. However with fat taxes in place this may change the lifestyles and consumption behaviours of low-income people who would be having several health benefits, but may lead to high-income people consuming more fast food from the typical assumption that the cheaper the food the worse the quality and the more expensive the food the better its quality is. Last point that may show how fat tax may not be the best solution to this problem is that fact that like many other taxes, this tax puts both the seller and the producer in the worse position. In case of the seller, he would need to transfer sections of his trade benefit to the government as tax revenues, therefore the seller may provide and supply food less than