One suggestion for financing health care reform is a proposed tax on fattening foods. It may raise revenue, but if you think it will have any affect whatsoever on the rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S., you are still intoxicated on the Obamafied Kool-Aid of HOPE AND CHANGE.
Here’s a newsflash baseball fans…it won’t happen.
Digest this.
In proposing a 5% premium on sweets and soft drinks, Massachusetts Governor Deval called it a “critical first step in discouraging the consumption of these empty calories.”
Ironic that Deval’s public health commissioner John Auerbach would acknowledge in a subsequent interview that this “sugar tax” was more about revenue generation than behavior modification. Adding more, Auerbach said “I think it is possible that it will effect consumption, but when we’ve looked at past studies, it is difficult to document that.”
Not feeling good yet about a national version of this nonsense? Keep reading.
In 2003, McDonald’s was the target of a lawsuit alleging food from McDonald’s restaurants was responsible for making people obese. In a victory for common sense, Judge Robert Sweet threw the case out of court.
In his ruling Judge Sweet stated, “Where should the line be drawn between an individual’s own responsibility to take care of herself and society’s responsibility to ensure others shield her?”
Good question. And equal consideration for “Where should we draw the line?” should be given to the question of “WHO should draw the line?”
The America I live in was founded by people brave enough to fight such intrusive government agendas. And the America I hope we never see is one that taxes the food choices we make because the government told us we were too stupid to think for ourselves. And we believed them.
