Sentences with phrase «suggesting food taxes»
Surprisingly, given his party's anti-nanny state platform, UK prime minister David Cameron is suggesting food taxes to counter the nation's burgeoning obesity crisis.
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Republicans have suggested they may seek to finance the tax cuts by slashing entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and food stamps.
Parent education, trying to bring back cooking, rejiggering the farm funding as Bittman suggested, maybe even food taxes, etc etc..
In a last - minute scramble to boost revenue, House Democrats in late June suggested pushing the state sales tax to 6.99 percent and allowing towns to tack on another percentage point for food and...
But Gjede suggested a $ 15 minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York and other neighboring states could ultimately benefit Connecticut's business climate, which was strongly criticized by some major employers who recently threatened to leave the state because of proposed business tax increases in one version of the state budget.
It suggests that money to support seed banks could be raised by taxing seed sales, and administered by an international body such as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
That might suggest that the city - dwellers have a more varied diet from different soils, and probably consume more sulfur - containing foods, while taxing their bodies less with strenuous exercise, which increases protein and calorie requirements.
Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.
As an open end, the paper contains some empirical refernces, related to consumer honesty, tax loyalty and to motives for buying organic food, and suggests the development of a consumer morality measurement instrument.
In its earlier meetings, the GST Council suggested a four - tier, simple tax system where the tax rates were either nil or too low for crucial food products and items.