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Flat White

A sugar tax is “Do Something” Economics 101

16 April 2018

11:05 AM

16 April 2018

11:05 AM

Britain’s recent implementation of a sugar tax has reignited the push for an Australian sugar tax, pointing to ‘science’. Often, our scientific and political elites really have no idea what they are doing. But in spite of this, they believe that they should do something.

Rising obesity is a real observable problem but the scientific community hasn’t conclusively identified what the main cause is.

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