A Scottish GP is calling for a tax to be put on chocolates to combat obesity. Apparently eating chocolates is the main cause of making us fat and if nothing is done about it now, obesity will cost the NHS and in turn the tax payer billions of pounds in the near future. So in a nutshell people who choose to be fat (by eating chocolate) need to pay for their future medical bills, Genius! or is it? Tax rises in the middle of a credit crunch? This would not be too bad if I was earning an average of 100K per annum. But unfortunately I am not a GP!
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