Chocolate Tax?!

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A doctor in Scotland wants to tax chocolate is he right or should we be more concerned with overall fat and sugar content?

"Dr David Walker, a GP in Lanarkshire, said many people eat their entire daily calorie requirement in chocolate, on top of their normal meals.
The doctor said chocolate used to be seen as a "treat" but had now become an harmful addiction for some."

Now while I am sure he is partially correct, I have often wondered if we really should tax food based on their fat and sugar content as that is what is putting the weight on.

It would be very difficult to make people exercise unless we employed a nation full of fat cops to whip us into a frenzy ( Now Big Fatty it's only an idea, don't get too excited just yet!) but it would be relatively easy to come up with fat and sugar taxes in a similar way to alcohol taxes.

This should make high fat, high sugar foods less attractive especially to lower income households, we would of course need to not spend that lovely money on paying back our bailout plans but to reduce the price of good foods such as vegetables in the uk that could be done by employing a negative VAT (Value Added Tax) rate.

What are your thoughs? Do we just let people do as they wish and more than likely watch our future generations suffer the effects of obesity as our generation is suffering or do we try and do something positive? Or do you think future generations having seen the problems will solve this for themselves?

Leave me a comment and let us all know! Love to know your views.