Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Where Is Our Spartacus When We Need Him?


Guest post by Apogee.

I am hoping that the average person is starting to ask how being taxed to the hilt by Westmonster is bad, yet being taxed even more by the EUSSR
is considered good. 

Now we have a population which sees no point in working because various governments and councils will rob them of anything they earn, so why should they work just for food; that is called slavery.  And don't be fooled, the apparatus of slavery has already been set up in the job centres, at the moment the conditioning process is just being put in motion. And the opportunities for free men to work are gradually being eroded. The idea of more and more immigration is to reduce the ability of natural born citizens to work in their own country. Stand back and look at the system, strip away the platitudes and you will see what I mean.  

We are being walked into a slave society by the EUSSR with the Judas goat attitude and mentality of our "rulers".  And guess who see their natural born right to be slave masters !

Frightened? you should be.

Ever wondered why the hunt for "terrorists"? Nothing to do with protecting the "people", but every thing to do with protecting the "born to rule" parasites. 


20 more years and they will have won. Every thing we need, especially our food , will be under their total control, then what. Why the pogrom about the deer?Because that is a food source not under their control, yet.

Saturday, 13 November 2010

Let Them Eat Chocolate


Dr Daniel Chandler,the public health doctor for NHS Dumfries and Galloway, has suggested there should be a minimum price per calorie as a solution to Scotland's obesity problem which is the second-highest in the developed world.

The proposal, intended to drive up the cost of fatty and sugary products such as crisps and chocolate, was put to a major conference attended by the country's leading public health professionals.  Denmark has already imposed 25% tax increases on ice cream, chocolate and sweets.
"The price [for healthier foods] is more expensive when you look at it on a per-calorie basis.” 
 I disagree with Dr Chandler's statement.  It's all too easy to label every high calorie food as 'unhealthy'.  Only this week it was reported researchers in Sweden have revealed that dark chocolate works on the body in the same way as blood pressure pills.  The same researchers previously showed the benefits of green tea.  The study proved that eating 75 grams of dark chocolate is as effective as ACE inhibitor drugs currently given to millions of patients with HBP.

There have been hundreds of studies involving food and fat content. In certain situations fatty foods may help aid concentration.

A fat tax is dreadful idea for two reasons. This tax would impact on the poorest most of all, because it would create an increase in the price of many foods. Also, taxation should never be used to control behaviour and impose the government's moral priorities on the public.

Then we have the problem of which fatty foods would be taxed.  Cheese is high in fat but has many health benefits.  Butter, another natural product, is far better for you than many of the spreads available today.  If sufferers of HBP took a chunk of dark chocolate every day that could possibly save our health services millions of pounds a year.  Who would decide what were the 'bad' or 'good' high content fatty foods?

Lifestyles have changed in the past half-century.  Many more people have sedentary lifestyles, such as working from home and losing out on the exercise usually involved with getting to work.  Also there is much more food available.  I doubt if there are many places in the UK where there isn't a fast food business. Until 20 years ago or so it was only the chip shop which provided the high fat, instant meal but nowadays the variety is mind boggling.

What is needed is more education about the amount of food we eat then governments to leave us to take responsibility for our own bodies.  Most people recognise that excess weight is usually acquired from excessive eating.  That's the point which needs to be emphasised.  Once people have the knowledge then they have a choice.  It's not for governments to remove the choice, by taxation, of what we consume in the way of food.

There is one piece of good food news this week.  I've always loved that vegetable and my favourite recipe includes a little bacon, while another is shredded, a tablespoon of water and two of lemon/line juice.  Cook on a slow heat for at least 45 minutes.  Delicious.

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