We have sin taxes on Alcohol and Tobacco. Many states with high taxes have shown that taxing tobacco has led to decreased consumption. This is one public health cause America has actually been succeding at, reducing smoking rates.
So why not put sin taxes on junk food? I don't know where you'd draw the line, but packaged processed stuff gets a tax. Double, triple, quadruple the price of soda, chips, microwave dinners, etc.
Use that money to subsidize natural foods, meat, fruit, vegetables...
To me, this is nothing but sensible.
I am sure "real Americans" will be up in arms about the invasion of their "right" to drink Coke and eat chips though.
The right to gluttony is practically the only right Americans care about saving these days.
So why not put sin taxes on junk food? I don't know where you'd draw the line, but packaged processed stuff gets a tax. Double, triple, quadruple the price of soda, chips, microwave dinners, etc.
Use that money to subsidize natural foods, meat, fruit, vegetables...
To me, this is nothing but sensible.
I am sure "real Americans" will be up in arms about the invasion of their "right" to drink Coke and eat chips though.
The right to gluttony is practically the only right Americans care about saving these days.