Bacon Tax

[vic mcclymont]

Whilst driving this morning caught the tail end of this news snippet.
Some guy is proposing a bacon an red meat tax in order to fund the NHS. He is proposing a fourteen percent tax.
Vic

[Keith at Tregenna]

"Let them eat brioche!

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

K.

[Ken Norton]

Nothing comes as a surprise anymore, they have also increased probate tax with large percentage add ons e.g. if you leave £500,000 then probate jumps from a couple of hundred or so to about £2, 500 the more you leave the higher it goes, don't we just love it.

[Bill Cameron]

If this tax comes in a pack of bacon costing £1:38 will rise to £3:30, allegedly , not acceptable in my opinion

[Lewis McColl]

If this tax comes in a pack of bacon costing £1:38 will rise to £3:30, allegedly , not acceptable in my opinion

14% 0f £1.38 = 19.32 pence, I bet it is the mozzies and the dews have at long last found common ground

[Keith at Tregenna]

Suggested for the UK is the “optimum” tax would see red meat products cost 14 per cent more, while processed foods would rise by 79 per cent – enough to raise the price of a cooked breakfast by 54.

Best eat cake till the sugar tax co9mes in.

Or go green ?

End of Haggis and black pudding ?

The black market should do well and the Lords will again
eat like Kings.

Best look after our potato's well.

K.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

On a Diet program from the UK on TV here; they said that some people who are oversize from gutsing are having operations done on the N.H.S. costing up to 10 thousand pounds, self indulging people should have to pay for this sort of thing, no wonder your med services are in a state.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

We had the UK correspondent on our radio news today.
He told us that the Sugar tax did at first reduce consumption, but now it is back to the previous level for soft drinks.

A tax on Red meat, this will reduce obesity, reduce green house gasses and of course raise much needed revenue for the gov.

The proposal was for 15% on red meat and some 75% on all processed such as snags, bacon, Salami etc.

try that here and the ****, Italians and Greeks, will string them up, Salami and other small goods are the life blood of these people.


But if our gov does then we can blame you lot for it.

[robpage]

The man behind this report and a suggestion of tax is Professor Reverend Mike Rayner who is also the Man Behind the controversial Sugar Tax as professor Rayner happens to be a vegan and doesn't like the idea of anybody eating any animal products then I'm afraid that the idea that the methane gas from the rear end of cattle is bitterly polluting our atmosphere and we should not shorten the life of farm animals by eating them we should not drink their milk eat their cheese etc well he can have his opinion if he wants but like a lot of minority groups he wants to impose his view on the rest of us that's what makes the whole idea ridiculous to some extent I agree with the Sugar Tax but this is just a Step Too Far why can't the vegans live there's lifestyle and leave the rest of us alone

[Lewis McColl]

I don't agree with the sugar tax , why, it has nothing to do with the health of the nation it is a stealth tax. Governments have the power to tell the producers of high surgar content products, lose the sugar or stop trading.