In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind of food. To what extent do you agree with this option?

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Junk
food
is undoubtedly everywhere nowadays. And countries with higher
income
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tend to have more junk
food
chain
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than those with lower
income
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. It is in those places too that the health problem caused by unhealthy
food
occurs the most.
Although
viable, the idea of increasing the
tax
imposed
to
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this
type
of
food
would not solve
this
issue
at hand, as wealthy
people
could just afford to buy them anyway. If any, it could produce an unnecessary side effect
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other sector
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another sector
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such
as the
overall
economy of said country.
Therefore
, I am more inclined to disagree with the notion of increasing the
tax
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this
type
of
food
. The first
issue
is that
people
with enough
money
would still be able to buy fast
foods
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. Ironically,
people
with enough
money
are the
people
who
got
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exposed the most
by
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diseases caused by junk foods.
Therefore
, it is redundant to gatekeep these items by increasing their prices, and, if any, would only cause them to be even more vulnerable to health
issue
as the
money
that
can
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be
otherwise
spent on healthy activities
such
as gym membership are used for buying unhealthy stuff. The second
issue
is that there is a lingering threat that other
sector
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of
the
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society could be affected by
this
movement. The most notable one is going to be the economic sector. If we increase the
tax
for unhealthy
type
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of foods and beverages, it could lead to a decrease in demand and
therefore
drop the value of these items. If the problem doesn't get resolved soon, it could
then
lead to
an
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inflation
that is
unnecessarily time-consuming and needs a lot of
money
to fix. In the end, I could not see the good
of
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the idea
to increase
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tax
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for
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unhealthy
food
. It would only reduce the
people
who eat them which would
then
lead to inflation or doesn't affect
people
at all, and they would just continue to consume them even though the price increases.
Therefore
, I disagree with the idea of increasing the
tax
for
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this
type
of commodity.
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  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

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  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
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