Sugar Taxes: Health aid or Budget band aid
The imposition of a sugar tax introduces a mixed bag of arguments. Whether a sugar tax is the way to go at this stage is, at best, an uneasy argument.
The imposition of a sugar tax introduces a mixed bag of arguments. Whether a sugar tax is the way to go at this stage is, at best, an uneasy argument.
Free Market Foundation’s Jasson Urbach looks at how well a sugar tax worked in countries like Mexico, France, Iceland and Denmark.
Anthea Jeffery is concerned that the ‘mathematical model’ on which the proposed sugar tax is based rests primarily on five unproven assumptions.
Frans Cronje is concerned that South Africans fought hard to re-assert their freedom from an overbearing state, but such a tax is forcing them to let go of those rights once again.
The proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages is no quick fix for South Africa’s complex obesity problem, writes Anthea Jeffery of the Institute of Race Relations.