Jay Goldberg is the interim Atlantic director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. By Jay Goldberg Everything you’re putting in your grocery cart is ...
When Mexico introduced a tax on soda pop in 2014, sales of sugar-sweetened pop sales actually went up, writes Jay Goldberg. — Photo by Edgar Delgado/UnsplashJay Goldberg is the interim Atlantic director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.Everything you’re putting in your grocery cart is getting more expensive and Premier Andrew Furey is about to hit one of your few affordable treats with a new hidden tax.But here’s the reality: it’s just another tax.
Furey says this tax is all about health, but the way it’s designed clearly demonstrates that this is nothing more than a tax grab. Does a hidden tax with another tax layered on top sound like the right way to help people lose weight?This tax grab gets even stranger the more you get into the details.
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