Couch potato lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking
Taxing fat foods or suing the industry are bad ideas. A new tax only gives the government another way to separate people from their money. If Americans learned anything from the tobacco lawsuit, it was politicians blew smoke when they promised to dedicate the $260 billion settlement on smoking-related expenses and tobacco cessation. And even with $100 million a year coming in from Big Tobacco, legislative Democrats still managed to turn billions in surpluses into a $1.5 billion deficit."