Meat Tax


(Gabriel G.) #1

I thought this was interesting. It’s not happening now, but wouldn’t be crazy to think it’s coming.

From the report:

Practically every government in the world faces challenges when it comes to balancing their budgets, and an increasingly attractive target for revenue creation is a tax on goods deemed to be unhealthy or damaging to the environment or both. For example, over 180 countries now impose a tax on tobacco, 60 jurisdictions tax carbon and at least 25 tax sugar.

This report explores whether meat may be the next product on this list.

And here is the link.


(Michael ) #2

Would make me so angry. Lately the experiments in Mexico and Berkley were sugar taxation which I’m all for. In addition, pulling government subsidies from corn and soy has a lot of potential to fix America. But meat taxation, no thanks