[DannyTN]

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

Part of the problems is that carbs are cheap. So almost every restaurant has them as part of their meals.

[Mark]

Use the proceeds of the tax to subsidize healthier foods.

Like the taxes on cigarettes were supposed to be directed, but ends up in the trough. We don't need the nanny state at all.

[Skywalk]

How about we continue to live in AMERICA, not some socialist nanny-state hellhole.

[aruanan]

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

There is no such thing as healthy or unhealthy food. It's their relative and absolute quantities that make the difference. The reason there are so many fat people is simple: highly nutritious and palatable food is easy to get and very, very cheap. When energy-dense food intake is combined with a sedentary lifestyle and recreational eating, fat butts ensue. If energy intake exceeds energy expenditure, fat deposits grow.

If the government were to ration food and limit each person's intake only to his expenditure, no one would get fat. Well, the capos of illegal food cartels would get fat from illegal food sales. And the government could get fat from asset forfeiture laws as it seizes property used for illegal food storage and preparation. Besides, the idea of using law and government coercion to perfect the human race instead of protecting members of society from the predation of others has never worked. It has only resulted in suffering that is far more costly than Type-II diabetes, angioplasties, and prescription drugs for lowering cholesterol.

[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

[lockjaw02]

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

Just goes to show, poor people just have way too much money. How about cutting their wages to bare minimum subsistence level? //end sarcasm//