{"id":17896,"date":"2013-11-01T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=17896"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:26:25","slug":"junk-food-tax-condoned-by-plaid-cymru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/01\/junk-food-tax-condoned-by-plaid-cymru\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk food tax condoned by Plaid Cymru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17907\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 312px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Food_5_Cake_Big_SB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17907\" alt=\"These really take the cake.\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Food_5_Cake_Big_SB-312x312.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17907\" alt=\"These really take the cake.\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/10\/Food_5_Cake_Big_SB-312x312.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> These really take the cake.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don\u2019t let them eat cake! A tax on junk food may be enforced if Plaid Cymru wins the election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Leader, Leanne Wood, has said that if her party wins the assembly election in 2016 she would consider enforcing a tax on sugary drinks of up to 20p per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has suggested that any financial gain made by this taxation of treats would be put towards the recruitment of 1000 extra doctors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to this boost for the NHS whether extra revenues raised through sugary drinks tax meet the entire cost or not\u201d Wood has said.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of taxing junk food has been fiercely <a title=\"William Powell opposition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-24511765\">opposed<\/a> by Liberal Democrat AM for Mid and West Wales William Powell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proliferation of junk food is distasteful, Plaid Cymru has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":17906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[14,3067,3068,3069,3070,3071],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-health","tag-junk-food","tag-leanne-wood","tag-sugar","tag-tax","tag-william-powell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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