Sugar Tax??

[MartinL]

I'm not a Fatty, why should I pay the sugar tax?

 

[dpearce4]

you don't have to.

just don't buy and soft drinks with lots of sugar in then you wont. lol.

 

[MartinL]

What about simple Orange-Squash, Ribena, oh and with Wimbledon approaching, Barley water?

Of course they're high in Sugar, you dilute them with water!

When I was a kid we had plenty of sugar available, but good parents who limited the intake and ensured we cleaned our teeth before bedtime, (which in those days was before 11:30PM).

Isn't the availability of sugar just some sort of natural selection? The wasters will all get fat and die early, not being fit enough to pass forward the Greedy-Gene??

Sorry I forgot about benefits!

 

[madasafish]

What about simple Orange-Squash, Ribena, oh and with Wimbledon approaching, Barley water?

Of course they're high in Sugar, you dilute them with water!

When I was a kid we had plenty of sugar available, but good parents who limited the intake and ensured we cleaned our teeth before bedtime, (which in those days was before 11:30PM).

Isn't the availability of sugar just some sort of natural selection? The wasters will all get fat and die early, not being fit enough to pass forward the Greedy-Gene??

Sorry I forgot about benefits!

With a free NHS, taxpayers pay for the resulting diabetes and its many complications...

 

[Hivemaker.]

Isn't the availability of sugar just some sort of natural selection? The wasters will all get fat and die early, not being fit enough to pass forward the Greedy-Gene??

Yep, let them eat sugar, as much as they want.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It's all window dressing anyway loads of posturing about how much tax money will be available for 'worthwhile' projects. I bet the pop manufacturer4s had already formulated 'get arounds' before they gave the old coke snorter permission to announce it in the budget.
I'd take the whole thing with a pinch of salt (until they start taxing it )

 

[MartinL]

So will they be taxing it North of the boarder as well?? I imagine they'll want to protect that stuff made from "girders"

Or will we all be going on Pop runs to Glasgow like they did to Calais in the late 80s??

 

[deanrpwaacs]

I'm not a Fatty, why should I pay the sugar tax?

You already have with the 700 million in subs to tate and lyle .

 

[For want of a better word]

old coke snorter

Is that Osbourne or the other one Dave somethin or other!!!

Nos da

 

[alfazer]

all the media hype centres on sugary drinks, but what about bags of sugar, fondant and products like inverted sugar syrup?

 

[For want of a better word]

all the media hype centres on sugary drinks, but what about bags of sugar, fondant and products like inverted sugar syrup?

Just after taxing the lardy townies... the Pasty Tax did nothing ... obesitywise!

Yeghes da

 

[Erichalfbee]

but what about bags of sugar,

Wilco had sugar at 60p a kilo yesterday....get some in

 

[dpearce4]

Wilco had sugar at 60p a kilo yesterday....get some in

lidl is still 39p less than 2/3rds the price of wilco. mind you all supermarkets are cheaper than wilco including waitrose.

 

[dpearce4]

Just after taxing the lardy townies... the Pasty Tax did nothing ... obesitywise!

Yeghes da

that's because they scrapped the pasty tax due to the wonderful greggs saying they would have to make lots of minimum wage staff redundant.

 

[Erichalfbee]

lidl is still 39p

Wow........and I though 60p was cheap. Shows the last time I bought any

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

old coke snorter

Is that Osbourne or the other one Dave somethin or other!!!

Nos da

Osborne of course - dave just pokes pigs (and I don't mean put them in a sack ready for market day

 

[domino]

With a free NHS, taxpayers pay for the resulting diabetes and its many complications...

Why no tax on high far foods like cheese then?

I don't drink soft drinks but this move is all smoke & mirrors - it is about raising money no combating obesity.

 

[madasafish]

Wow........and I though 60p was cheap. Shows the last time I bought any

Aldi and Farmfoods 39p also.

 

[For want of a better word]

that's because they scrapped the pasty tax due to the wonderful greggs saying they would have to make lots of minimum wage staff redundant.

No VAT is freshly cooked.... or frozen.... VAT if reheated.

I think?????

But Call me Dave's wrathsayers have made more U turns than the Police chasing the petrol head chavs around Estover on a Friday night!

Mytten da

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

No VAT is freshly cooked.... or frozen.... VAT if reheated.

I think?????

Yes, more or less - a big kick in the teeth for chippies when it was introduced last time this mob were in way back in the eighties (before then, VAT was only standard rated for sit down meals).