Taking steps to ensure that we live healthy is a good thing to do because healthy people will birth a healthy society, and wealth won't be far from such people. Tax on goods and services is one major way that the government generates income for the country, which helps her to run the country smoothly.The government tends to reduce the tax on some commodities that he feels are used more by the members of the country, especially those goods that are produced in the country, and increase taxes on imported goods.
The essence of this is to encourage the members of the country to think outside the box or go further to make sure they produce things themselves.In a way this is good, and in another way it does not make much sense because, from my observation for some years now, the moment you hear that the government has closed borders, marketers increase the price of goods. At times when you even go out to buy the same goods, it seems to be cheaper outside than what you get within the country.
There are goods that, in a good way, are not healthy for the consumption of the members of the country. The government has gone a long way to make sure it stops the importation, but there are strong hands behind it who will always fight to make sure it does not work. A few days back I was listening to a program over the radio, and the speaker spoke strongly against the use of alcohol by motorists because it gives them undue motivation, and it makes them feel as if they can lift the car all by themselves.
For this increment of tax, there are two sides to it. In the cigarette packs, it is written that smokers are liable to die young, but that singular statement has not made any of them quit smoking; rather, they even want to preach to you to join them. Just last Monday when I went to the lab to run some checks on myself, I met two guys, and shortly one of them went out and returned shortly with some cigarette sticks. I was so surprised because to me it was too early for anyone to do that; I wasn't even sure that they had had breakfast. I wasn't ready to talk with them, so I just stepped out from there because of the smoke.Some of the things these people use in getting themselves high are of general use, such as gum, which is used by shoemakers, cough syrup, and more.
Talking about sugar, in as much as sugar has its downside, it does not make it bad in its sense because it is mostly used by the majority and does not have a direct negative effect on the system. So permit me to remove it from the list of the things whose tasks need to be increased because most of the things we use on a daily basis have some percentage of sugar in them, like biscuits, bread, and more.
In a way of conclusion the most important thing that the government needs to do is not to increase taxes but to make sure to create proper awareness of the risks we humans stand to face by using them because if the tax on the goods are imposed it will have a hit back on the common man which it's outcome will not be good on the society at large.
This is my entry to the last edition of this weeks contest. Thank you for reading through my post today.
