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Flat White

Why not tax obesity instead of sugar?

16 January 2018

1:30 PM

16 January 2018

1:30 PM

Once upon a time, New Year’s resolutions were the purview of the individual. You made an unwritten pact with yourself to read more books or to join a gym. Sometimes it worked, more often it didn’t. But the point was the individual’s application and willpower to improve their lives.

But that’s not good enough for our Nanny state betters.

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