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Denmark introduces world's first food fat tax

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UPDATED: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 20:10
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 2:06 AM

GEEZER

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Denmark has introduced what is believed to be the world's first fat tax - a surcharge on foods that are high in saturated fat.

Butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed food are now subject to the tax if they contain more than 2.3% saturated fat.

Some consumers began hoarding to beat the price rise, while some producers call the tax a bureaucratic nightmare.

Others suggest that many Danes will simply start shopping abroad.

Danish officials say they hope the new tax will help limit the population's intake of fatty foods.

However, some scientists think saturated fat may be the wrong target.

They say salt, sugar and refined carbohydrates are more detrimental to health and should be tackled instead.



"Psssst. Hey, friend. I got some primo triple butter here, fresh off the boat from England. The first pat is free."


"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 6:16 AM

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 10:38 AM

KIRKULES


I think the reason the Danes put up with high taxes is that they probably don't actually pay the majority of the taxes collected in Denmark. They see the benefits of paying higher taxes in better benefits from their socialist government and not as much of the down side. Most of the taxes in Denmark are probably collected from German tourists that from my experience seem to out number Danes ten to one during the summer season. We could be good socialists too if the Canadians and Mexicans would just become as hardworking and productive as the Germans. This tax does seem like shooting themselves if the foot though, dairy is one of their signature products and why they would do anything to hurt dairy farmers is beyond me. They should just raise the toll on the bridge from Københaven to the Jutland from its current $40 US(one way) to $100 and leave their last best industry alone.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 11:48 AM

FIVVER


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Originally posted by Kirkules:
I think the reason the Danes put up with high taxes is that they probably don't actually pay the majority of the taxes collected in Denmark. They see the benefits of paying higher taxes in better benefits from their socialist government and not as much of the down side. Most of the taxes in Denmark are probably collected from German tourists that from my experience seem to out number Danes ten to one during the summer season. We could be good socialists too if the Canadians and Mexicans would just become as hardworking and productive as the Germans. This tax does seem like shooting themselves if the foot though, dairy is one of their signature products and why they would do anything to hurt dairy farmers is beyond me. They should just raise the toll on the bridge from Københaven to the Jutland from its current $40 US(one way) to $100 and leave their last best industry alone.



That's how Florida manages to get by without an income tax. All the snowbirds paying hotel and rental car taxes. As they say, "tourists don't vote."

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 1:59 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


So y'all aren't necessarily AGAINST the idea of raising taxes - you just don't want them raised on you or the stuff YOU like, right?


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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 8:10 PM

RIONAEIRE

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My immediate instinct is to say, "Ew, these people are luh suh in their ideas of what is okay." but then I stop and think about how I don't mind cigarette taxes in American because cigarettes are grotty and unhealthy ... and then I think to myself "maybe that isn't fair of me to feel that way".

But then I say to myself that food is different than cigarettes. Shouldn't people be voting on stuff like this? When OR imposed a tax on cigarettes I seem to remember it being voted on first.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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