[MarkL]

How about this. Use the proceeds of the tax to subsidize healthier foods.

Yeah right!

DOES ANYBODY ACTUALLY THINK THAT MONEY THE GOVERNMENT TAKES IN AS NEW TAXES HERE WILL ACTUALLY GO TO WHERE THEY PROMISE IT'S GOING TO GO?!?!?!?!?!

Perfect examples include state lottery funds going to improve schools, the gasoline taxes going to fund road repairs and improvements, and my favorite, tobacco taxes funding health care! ROTFLMAO!!!!

Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me 97 times, shame on me!

Mark

[elbucko]

DOES ANYBODY ACTUALLY THINK THAT MONEY THE GOVERNMENT TAKES IN AS NEW TAXES HERE WILL ACTUALLY GO TO WHERE THEY PROMISE IT'S GOING TO GO?!

Exactly.

There are actually three separate issues here.
1. High Caloric Food.
2. Human Obesity.
3. Taxes.

Of the three, the third issue does not belong. The perpetual tendency for politicians and some citizens to tax objects or activities that they consider harmful or disagreeable is a misuse of the states power to tax.