29 Sept 2009

An Anti-Tax Argument That’s Hard to Swallow



This article talks about the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, for a tax on "sugar-sweetened” drinks to reduce the people’s consumption for increasing the health.


I agree with this new proposal because, nowadays, all developed countries have the obesity problem and its causes for this unhealthy products that people consumerism very often.


A lot of people are not agreeing with that, especially in New England where this tax will be imposed.

I think that this tax won’t be imposed if people take care of themselves but it doesn’t happen; in general everyone only thinks about the food flavor, not about the ingredients it takes.




New vocabulary:

Tax: Impost
Sugar-sweetened:
endolcit per sucre.




Extract from: The New York Times.