No taxes on healthy foods like veggies, fruit, berries, nuts, fish, lean meats, whole-wheat/barley  Not sure about where you are, but I'm in Ontario (Canada) and we already don't tax these things. These types of foods are considered "essential" so they aren't taxed. However, things like white breads and pastas also aren't taxed by this same logic. Sodas, snacky-cakes and candies have the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) because they're "non-essential" but it's only 13%. Interestingly, our liquor and gasoline are taxed to hell and back - I don't know exactly how much (since the tax is incorporated into the price you see on the shelf/at the pump) but I think it can be up to 1/3 of the total cost. They need to start doing this with sugar-based products. I also think they should start putting graphic warning labels on junk-food packages (like they do with tobacco products in this province)