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Nanny Rahui wants no G.S.T. on "healthy food"

by Whaleoil on April 22, 2010

Nanny Rahui has decided it would be great to control what people eat by removing GST from so-called healthy foods.

It is such a dumb idea that she has earned a nickname. “Nanny”.

The kind of thinking that concludes that taxing vices will change behaviour has been so successful in reducing Maori uptake of smoking it surely must be a worthwhile exercise with unhealthy foods…..oh wait!

Just exactly how the hell is she proposing to measure unhealthy food? Calories? Weight-watchers points? Fat content? That’ll screw milk up.

Where is the bench mark to be set? An Irvines maggot pack? 265 cal/100g. How about a “healthy” meat pie from Jesters? 167 cal/100ml.

What about McDonalds Weight Watchers approved meals? 128 cal/100ml And that is misleading anyway because it is calculated over the whole size of the meal, with the salad lowering the average considerably. The Filet-o-Fish alone is 246 cal/100g!

What about Blue Top milk? 62 cal/100ml

How about a coke? 41 cal/100ml Wow, who would have thought a coke was better for you than a glass of Blue Top milk

Orange Juice? 47 cal/100ml Haha another sacred cow slayed, even Coke has less calories than Orange Juice.

What about one those tasty new fandangled Jazz Apple that ENZA is maketing to the world? 80 cal/100g Bwahahah a coke is better for you than and apple.

Ridiculous law from a ridiculous MP. I can’t wait to see the actual wording of the law. I wonder if Weight-watchers is sponsoring the Maori party.

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  • grizz

    Try being a retailer who has to separate healthy items from non-healthy items and account GST for each separately. If I were them, I would just peddle junk. At least it would be business as usual at the local Fish and Chip shop… oh wait, what about those wedges of lemon! Surely Tomato sauce is just made from vegetables. They say fish is healthy also and the oil is cholesterol free.

    Witness hair being pulled out. I give up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1201173949 petal

    “Wow, who would have thought a coke was bet­ter for you than a glass of Blue Top milk”

    if you ignore the tooth decay, sure :)

  • megashitstirrer

    God, fuck me, is this the quality of Maori input we have in gummint these days?

  • crabby

    I hear the Maori Party is going to be changing its name to the Ostrich Party… At least then no one will question why some of their MP’s ignore logic and bury their heads in the sand.

  • robf

    Where else would you go for advice on how to go to prison, beat children senseless, suffer from a range of ailments from mental health, smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, through to diabetes. Not to mention how to rip off white motherfxxxxrs.

  • mrjolly

    It’s a fairly safe bet that any reduction to the retail price of these items will quickly be absorbed by stores who recognise the current price is the price the market is happy to pay.

  • angrywasp

    By this logic we can also expect GST cuts at Sporting stores and on Gym memberships then?? Anyone else get the feeling they are on fairly serious drugs reading Maori Party policy?

  • megashitstirrer

    She would have been smarter getting the gummint to take a stake in Nike to get serious discounts on shoes for fat bastards like WO, or better still have Maori making shoes on contract in prison.

    It could be slotted into Whanau Ora as yet another loss leader.

  • thor42

    Definitely one of the most stupid proposed laws ever.

    Even if the government did drop GST on so-called “healthy” foods, it wouldn’t make ANY difference. They would have to simultaneously increase the cost of pies to about $15 each to make a difference.
    Can’t see that happening (thank goodness…. ).