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Originally Posted by Zitar  How are you going to enforce this? Have an army of feds that check peoples weight? Tax fattening food? Since most cheap food is already fattening and healthy food for the most part is much more costly you just end up with a poor tax that may or may not target the fat people your going after. Not to mention it doesn't address the problem with most obesity in the country which isn't mainly the food, but the lack of activity. |
A fat tax is ridiculous. But there are a billion good arguments to be made for the US (and most other countries) to completely restructure their agricultural and food subsidy systems, because the food marketplace is totally fucked right now. All of the shit that's bad for you? Heavily subsidized. All of the shit that's good for you? Barely subsidized. It's completely ass backwards.
