Yes, let's destroy the “fat industry” the way the libs nearly destroyed Yacht building (remember that one folks?). I can think of no better way to guarantee a double dip recession.
Here in Idaho one of our major crops is sugar beets and we have a plant to process them into sugar in Nampa, and one just over the border in Nyssa. If you want to hurt the local economy put a tax on sugar. It's going to be felt all the way back to the farmers.
The same is true for fast food. Put a tax on hamburgers and the demand for beef will fall and the ranchers will suffer. Bear in mind one of the age groups that currently has the hardest time finding work are whippersnappers just out of high-school many of whom fulfill the tired cliche and work fast food.
All the fat tax will do is make a lot of hard working folks unemployed and hungry.
“All the fat tax will do is make a lot of hard working folks unemployed and hungry.”
and dependent on government.