Why a sugar tax won't reduce obesity

Dr Eric Crampton
Mike Hosking Breakfast - Newstalk ZB
2 March, 2018

37 Documents released under the OIA reveal a Ministry of Health deeply skeptical about sugar taxes. The internal advice within the Ministry highlighted the same problems with sugar taxes as we mentioned in our 2016 report The Health of the State. Eric Crampton explains on Newstalk ZB why a sugar tax won't reduce obesity in New Zealand. 

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