In
Mexico they increased the prince on junk foods like candy, soda and chips. This
was approved on Halloween to start with the new taxes. The taxes include 1 peso
(.76 cents US dollars) per liter of soda and 8% sales tax for fatty junk foods
even including cereal. Mexico’s President, Enrique Pena Nieto, is putting this
law into action this coming January. The companies that are selling the fatty
foods in Mexico are trying to stop this from happening because they are at risk
of their sales going down on the things they are selling. Mexico is only trying
to make their people less at risk for obesity and diabetes. With these
increasing taxes they are also achieving at making more money for things people
buy every single day. According to the World Health Organization, 70% of
Mexicans are overweight and are at risk for diseases that could end their
lives. In Ney York City, their mayor launches an add campaign to support
Mexico’s doings with the taxes. This will also be eliminating some industrial
plants on the boarder of the United States.
As
a country, increasing the taxes on all junk foods and sugary drinks is a very
smart move for Mexico to make. Too many people are obese in this world and we
cant sit around monitoring every little thing people each some raising the
prices keeps them from buying extreme amounts of fatty foods. The only thing
that could be bad about raising the taxes on sugary foods would be the
factories on the United States borders that give Mexicans very good job
opportunities. Without these jobs they wouldn’t have a place to make money and
would have trouble finding another job. This is something the United States
should put into action for their residents instead of making all the fatty
foods so cheap and easy to get a hold of.
Kaley Stapleton
November 1, 2013
4:00pm
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