Denmark starts taxing fatty foods. Would you pay more to eat cheese or chips?

sweets are already taxed!!!!!

If you're going to raise taxes on 'bad' foods, those taxes should then be redistributed to lower-income people so they can afford to buy healthy food. Eating a diet with sufficient lean protein and vegetables and fruit is much more expensive than eating crap. Not having enough money for healthy food takes away your ability to 'choose' to buy healthy food.

when are the politicians going to create a stupid tax, they'll have to be the first to tax themselves at 200%...

They should tax everyone who watches Snookie.

How come Ontarians don't have that tax? We have every other one under the sun! Thanks to Dalton.

If that happened here I'd be starting a lawsuit. That tax is based on an out-moded idea that eating fat causes someone to get fat. Being hypothyroid I have to eat low carb/high fat. The combination keeps me healthy and happy, thank you very much. I have better cholestrol than most people my age. Yet my having to eat that way in order to maintain a lower weight and good health would be penalized if someone were to put a tax on things like cheese and meats.

I hope our idiots won't copy this idea.

How about respecting individual freedom of people instead of penalizing them with social engineering methodology.

This is typical socialist thinking. I found out today we in B.C. are being hammered an extra two bucks tax to buy a $20 electric kettle because it is an electrical product. What a provincial Liberal government tax grab!!!!!! Sickening bunch.

A socialist country raising taxes? MY WORD THIS IS NEW.

Thought for the day:

Fat people are harder to kidnap.

:))

Even with the tax, it's probably still cheaper than buying health food.

I do hope that the money made from the fat tax goes toward making healthy food cheaper. But then that would make sense.

A tax on any food is simply a tax wake up! They are already taxing water who is this one for the healthy people tax? It is just a tax for the morons who keeps believing this crap!

Governments are never happy without getting there Taxes and any excuse will do.

How can you call this innovative, Governments create taxes to serve them all the time and for everything they can think of, if they can't tax it, they surcharge it. I just can't imagine why anyone would call this innovative.

As if that will work. If someone wants a binge they want a binge and so they binge. Trust me, I should know. If you are bulimic or have binge eating disorder something happens inside your brain and you want that binge and you obsess about it and it's like you are not yourself anymore. You have to have those chips or ice cream or whatever and there is no stopping. I speak from personal experience.

With all the tax dollars raised by this new tax, what is the Danish government's plan? And how do they plan to measure success? Over what time frame?

Is the Danish government going to create more physical education within their school systems? Or make available more after-school recreation opportunities for all ages? Or perhaps create a tax credit for gym memberships and other recreation fees that foster healthy living?

Obesity isn't just about food. It's related to a person's state of mind and their access to the necessary tools to combat it - education & recreation. And it most certainly doesn't happen over night. It takes time to get there and even more time to recover from it. Throwing a tax at a problem doesn't make it go away... ask an alcoholic how taxing booz deterred them from drinking.

just wait dont we all ready tax for junk food in canada

Well I guess since Harper copies all the USA tax bills, why not copy Denmark too, this fat tax will be next in Canada. I wonder if Harper will go on a diet if he taxes fat food, he is after all looking a bit FATTER himself, or is that just all the taxpayers cash in his vest that he is skimming. Heil King Harper our savior.