date:Aug 15, 2012
lso objected to unfairly targeting some products with a tax and not others.One week ago in Israel, they raised the tax on beer and cigarettes. I objected to the beer if you raise tax on beer, why not other alcoholic drinks? Its something similar when you talk about food.
One of the problems, said Adato, was that healthier foods were often higher in price, which meant that if you taxed unhealthy foods you were preventing poorer people from being able to afford enough to eat.If you tax bread wit