Some people thinks that government should tax unhealthy food to encourage people to begin to eat more healthy meals. Do you agree or disagree.

It is irrefutable that

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is the most essential thing human's need. Many people believe that higher taxes on unhealthy

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would encourage people to eat healthy. I tend to disagree with

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mindset, as it would not make much of a difference, since, unhealthy

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is cheap and easily available.

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, division of different segments of

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and foremost, increasing tax on junk

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won't make much of a change as they are easily available and are cheap. In

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fast paced life individual look for

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that is

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easy to grab and eat, to fulfil their appetite.

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, a burger from any of the retail chain cost lest than $5 (taxes included).

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, a salad cost $10.

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provides clear idea why there is

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a huge demand for fast

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and why it would be childish to believe that increasing taxes would force people to eat healthy.

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to that, it is difficult to create a category between healthy and unhealthy

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, as every person has different

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requirement. Authorities will only be able to increase prices of ingredients, as

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products are one's recipes and some of them are patented.

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, many fast

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chains, patent different type of pizza's and burger's, in order to have a monopoly and can have an edge among other competitors.

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, they create their customer base on that and if taxes are increased on those products, it will be a violation of patent rights. As a consequence, the government might end up paying a lot more than what they have collected as taxes. To sum up, increasing taxes on some of the

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items will not help government to raise awareness. In my opinions, it is better to consider active options and increase awareness among students by organising sports and doing community activities to make people healthy.