Like most other dumb places, Quebec is considering a 'fat' tax.
Any 'tax' used to 'discourage' a certain behavior is stupid. Taxes are inherently inefficient. The rationale 'as long as the government does this and that' is pure bunk.
Once again, when will people A) face the consequences of their own actions? and B) quit turning to the effen government for what ails society?
The problem in Canada of course is we don't have a choice. Because health is 'universal' and the most rigid of all the OECD systems, I'm forced to go with the 'well it keeps health care costs down' logic.
Which is a lame logic considering, as I've said, there are plenty of people who would jump the public system and go private but the government won't let them for certain procedures. Basically, it's a way of keeping an open-ended option on taxing our lives and lifestyles.
All these taxes and still mediocrity reigns in health and education. Go figure.
Can it be we're looking it things all wrong?
A tax claiming to come in peace and good health is a money grab.
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