This would make a certain amount of sense if the government wsn’t simultaneously forcing children into government-run schools, where parents have no control over what the children eat all day. If they’d get the food supply in the schools under control, including prohibiting children from sharing food brought from home with other children, then I think it would be perfectly appropriate to cut off the government health care benefits of the parents. You can’t have the parents actively racking up a replacement generation who will be outrageously expensive for the NHS (which shouldn’t exist, but it does), and not “charge” them for this action.
It’s a big problem in the US too, where much of the country is on some sort of taxpayer-funded healthcare program, and private insurance is so heavily regulated that it’s not allowed to refuse or cancel policies for people who are obese. People who live responsibly, taking proper care of their own health and their children’s health, end up getting stuck with the huge bill for those who don’t.
Government tells us how to take care of the poor, we have a bloated welfare system that takes money from those who work and gives it to those who wont work while reneging on those who want to work or are incapable of working due to disability.
Government wants to take care of those who can't care for themselves who are mentally challenged severely mentally ill ETC. they end up putting them in institutions where they are abused and tormented. Sometimes they like to use them to lock up people they don't like such as politicals and those who are politically incorrect.
Government monopolizes guns, we have higher gun homicides, disarmed victims and criminals running around with more hand guns.
Chef Crank mcnutty now thinks government is capable of telling us what we can or can't eat. Dreadful...