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Business/Economics, International

Global Class War: Denmark taxes Fat, yet majority of Danes are Skinny, Jack Sprat’s wife the victim of elite nutritionists

Yet more proof that the Danish government’s tax on fat is about making money, not being healthy.  According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only 10% of Danes are obese!

On a recent BBC World Have Your Say program, a Danish politician said that the purpose of a democratic representative government is to “find balance” in imposing social policies on the general public. Say what? I always thought a democratic representative government was supposed to do what the majority of the voting public wants!  Oh well, I’m still waiting for it to happen here in the United States.

Basically the Danish politician was admitting that Denmark is being run by a minority of do gooders that’re pushing their own agenda upon the majority of Danes.

Consider this: There is scientific evidence that it’s a high carbohydrate/sugar diet that actually makes you fat.  Now realize that the majority of Danes eat a high fat diet and only 10% are obese!!!  That’s 5% below the average for all of Europe.

There’s also plenty of evidence that shows skinny people are just as prone to conditions (like diabetes) as fat people.  In fact there’s growing evidence that most poor health conditions, in adults, are more influenced by genetics than what you eat.  Remember the old nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat?  There’s truth in it.

Business/Economics, International, Opinion

Global Class war: Denmark & Hungary impose taxes on Fat and Potato Chips

Under the guise of forcing people to eat “healthy”, the governments of Denmark and Hungary have imposed the world’s first taxes targeting specific foods.  Of course those foods are the most affordable for the growing number of people with less and less income.

Hungary has imposed a potato chip snack tax. Snack chips (called crisps, in Europe) will be taxed at about U.S.$1 per kilogram (2.2 pounds), which could add 10 to 20 cents per bag of chips.  The tax includes other items like sugary drinks, snack cakes, salty snacks, and even food flavorings!

Denmark has imposed a U.S.$3 per kilogram (2.2 pounds) tax on the saturated fat content of food.  The main targets of the fat tax are milk, butter and cheese.

Here’s the problem with the logic of the governments’ reasons for taxing food that is fast becoming the only food people can afford: Putting a tax on food does not make people eat healthy!  The taxes imposed by Denmark and Hungary are not enough to force people to buy much more expensive health food. In the case of Denmark, they’re taxing the main staples of European diets; milk,butter and cheese! Rather, I think those governments are trying to capitalize on the fact that more and more people will be buying the “less healthy” food, because they can’t afford anything else!

Read why the Danish fat tax is only about money (clue: the Danes are not fat)!