• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

One for Osborne & Cameron to consider

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
martindt1606

martindt1606

Forum Host
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 3c
saw this on the bbc web site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16822533

Would it be better to tax all products containing sugar to.......:

retain Child Allowance
reduce University Fees
invest in more pumps for diabetics
 
No - it would mean my essential medicine (jelly babies) would be taxable! 😱
 
No... that's a ridiculous idea.
There are so many things that contain sugar, like bread, cakes, you would cause suffering to everyone and raise inflation. Not to mention manufacturers would switch to other sweeteners with potential bad side effects.

It's about time people took responsibility for their actions, we have to reduce our sugar intake, why can't overweight people. It would be a lot more sensible to link income tax to BMI.
What the connection is to University fees I don't understand, the same for child allowance. Tax is tax is isn't used to provide expenditure on specific items, the road fund licence (car tax) doesn't pay for the roads for example.
 
You Could tax away for me ! Dont do sweets ! Storey is worth reading from across the pond. 🙂
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top