The report from the \u201cNational Food Strategy\u201d was a further waste of taxpayers\u2019 money with its set of recommendations on the British food industry.<\/p>\n
Its conclusions included a sugar tax and a salt tax \u2013 with an estimated tax grab of \u00a31.3 Billion.<\/p>\n
Whilst we may not disagree that too much sugar and too much salt may be harmful on occasions \u2013 we definitely object to a tax \u2013 that according to the report should be then used to subsidise \u201chealthy food\u201d for poorer families. i.e., those who work hard end up, once again paying more.<\/p>\n
The author continues with additional \u201csocialist rhetoric\u201d \u2013 of let\u2019s increase the threshold for free school meals \u2013 from \u00a37,000 to \u00a320,000 and a mass handout of free vitamins, vegetables and fruit vouchers. And who is to \u201cpolice\u201d that these vouchers are used by the recipients in the correct manner and are not discounted for cash to unscrupulous traders.<\/p>\n
One of the core philosophies of populism \u2013 is that governments should incentivize its citizens to make decisions \u2013 for instance, if diesel engine cars should be reduced \u2013 then incentives should be promoted to achieve that wish \u2013 i.e., no car tax payable on non-diesel cars.\u00a0 This way, the citizen has a financial motivation to make that decision \u2013 BUT \u2013 that decision is theirs alone to make.<\/strong><\/p>\n Therefore, this report on \u201cfood strategy\u201d fails at the first hurdle \u2013 with a list of demands but without economic analysis \u2013 enforced by penalties (which as always are the \u201cRed\u201d default positions to achieve their \u201cutopia\u201d)<\/p>\n We trust George Eustice the environment secretary throws this report into the rubbish bin \u2013 where it belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The report from the \u201cNational Food Strategy\u201d was a further waste of taxpayers\u2019 money with its set of recommendations on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/far-right.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}