Just been thinking about it. Promotes healthy eating, but it also seems regressive. Is healthy food subsidies the better option? How do you implement it? Maybe healthy food subsidies financed by junk food tax seem like the best option? Discuss
Just been thinking about it. Promotes healthy eating, but it also seems regressive. Is healthy food subsidies the better option? How do you implement it? Maybe healthy food subsidies financed by junk food tax seem like the best option? Discuss
Probably doesn't "promote healthy eating" unless the price of junk food spikes to something obscene.
Yes, very regressive. Lose your job or have to go long term without a home and guess what, cheap calories and processed foods that don't need to be cooked/specially stored suddenly are outside of your price range.
I have no sciency articles to back this thought up, but trying to fund something by taxing a thing you don't want people to do seems like a bad idea. If people stop eating the junk food too much, then the healthy food subsidy's funding dries up.
Just give everybody a debit card that gets recharged every week or two. Can be used at a store to buy whatever you want or maybe use what happens in the USA with the food stamp programs, products are flagged as "SNAP/WIC" or not in the Point of Sale systems. Does cause embarrassment when a customer can't figure out why their card wont pay for everything they were trying to buy though, so maybe just let people do their thing with dignity. Take it out of defense spending or tax the stonk market.