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Topic: There should be a health tax on all food with sugar. Discuss.
As we known, sugar is detrimental to our health. Uncontrolled in using of sugar causes the increasing of obesity rate of population and makes severe illness for people like hypertension, diabetes. Hypertension may create strokes that make people handicapped and becoming a burden for their family and society. They have to spent a lot of money for treatment to avoid the harmful complications. They need other people to take care of them. Besides, the more absorbed the sugar content, the less absorbed the energies that support people's activities. That problem caused fatigue and reduced the efficiency of working, leaning of everyone, for children it caused more harmful and dangerous effects on their physical development.
To reduce the use of sugar, it is really necessary to impose a tax to reduce the consumption of it. The tax will cause the increasing in sugar price which makes the increasing in price of sweet foods and beverages, such as sweet cakes, candies and carbonated drinks. In one hand, it forces the manufactures to reduce the sugar content in processing of foods and beverages or they have to substitute with alternative ingredients that may be better for people's health. On the other hand, people will likely to consume the other cheaper or more healthy foods and beverages like natured fruits, vegetables and mineral water. Due to such kind of tax has a good impact on people's health, we could name it as health tax.
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