The World Health Organization is advising the government to use taxes to take your freedoms away.
In a Tuesday news release, WHO called for huge global tax increases on alcohol and sugary drinks, suggesting that increasing the price of these beverages by a whopping 50 percent would create healthier societies.
Dr. Rüdiger Krech, WHO’s director of health promotion, said, “Taxing unhealthy products creates healthier populations. It has a positive ripple effect across society — less disease and debilitation and revenue for governments to provide public services. In the case of alcohol, taxes also help prevent violence and road traffic injuries.”
What a pretty utopian picture Krech paints. Let’s see. What else can be taxed to “protect” your health? Meat? Gasoline-powered vehicles? Guns? Everything?
The last time they tried to outlaw alcohol — remember Prohibition? — bootleggers got rich and crime flourished. The same thing will happen when freedom is a matter of wealth and not a God-given right.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/world-health-organization-calls-huge-global-tax-increases/