They'll put more poor people on more fattening pastas, bread and rice than ever before. They will have the exact opposite effect they intended.

What a terrible idea. I have no idea what they already tax in Great Britain; do they tax sugary products already?

I wouldn't mind such a tax at all on stuff like Oreos and Twinkies that have no nutritional value at all. After all, at least in the U.S., we tax tobacco and booze at a high rate. I can't see why not true junk food.

Putting extra tax burden on whole foods just makes no sense, will harm the poor, and will harm farmers while enriching food processing giants.

A long time ago, I read a short story that had quasi-fascist government monitors who looked in on families to see who was fat, who smoked, etc. We may just get to that yet if things keep going the way they are.