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Mexico and Hungary tried junk food taxes – and they seem to be working
- bcaulfield 9y agoTake this to an extreme, and for the right price I can eat a lot of broccoli.
- DrScump 9y agoIn the Mexico case, they aren't comparing actual consumption; they made a model of where they think consumption would have been without the tax. They also showed no increase in consumption of untaxed items. If their projections are accurate, that means that all those calories simply vanished from public consumption, not that people shifted to healthier, untaxed foods. So, if these numbers are legitimate, we should see corresponding weight loss among the population.