Trust the kiwi reporter to get his facts wrong eh lol.

Firstly i think even if his suggestion is a good one, i cannot see it really working, there is much more out there than just mcdonalds, let's face it, you would have to ban all fast foods really to achieve any results worthwhile.

There was talk of putting a fast food tax here too, but it never eventuated, personally i think it would only make a very few people think ,cigarettes have always had tax on them here and they keep increasing it, but people continue to smoke, honestly i am not a big fast food eater, but if i wanted mcdonalds, no food tax would stop me .People just accept what they have no power to change, we never had gst tax on our goods, but that has been in place for years now, and we can do nothing about it, we still continue to buy goods regardless. I think people will still continue buying fast foods, they just realise that they will pay a bit more, so what.

Yes children are indeed their parents responsibility, but sadly not all parents are just that responsible, that is why we as a society have to interfer sometimes,it's a fact the bad ones always spoil it for the good ones, in general in most things in life, and therefore we all end up paying the price, if we did not interfer, then those children, who become adults do infact become a burden on society, i refer to obesity here, as then the tax payer, at least in my country end up footing the bill,for say health care etc etc.