MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippine Star is reporting that Senator Raffy Tulfo has slammed the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s “anti-poor” plan to impose taxes on junk food next year.

In a statement, Tulfo said that poor families would even eat chips as viands to feed their hungry stomachs.

But an AC investigation found out that a 180g pack of potato chips costs about P278 at Lazada, and that’s even on sale!

The Daily Price Monitoring report by the Department of Agriculture further shows that for that amount of money, or less, “poor Filipinos” can buy a whole chicken, a kilo of pork, or fish.

So where does Tulfo get his information? Perhaps from unpaid interns who don’t even know how to do simple things as Google check?

OUR VERDICT: Senator Tulfo’s statement has no basis in fact and is trying to play on emotions.