Lately I've been looking into something that has been discussed as a way of making Americans healthier while helping to cover the costs of health care: a so-called "fat tax." I first heard about the idea from Rush Limbaugh, who argued that this was the next step toward fascism by the Democrats (to be fair, everything is the next step toward fascism by the Democrats):- An LA Times op-ed on "the soda tax solution"
- How a soda tax might help state budgets
- An earlier LAT op-ed on the problems that might come in imposing such a tax
- An LAT op-ed from 2007 about why snackers should be taxed instead of smokers
- ABC News talks about public health leaders proposing a tax on sugared drinks
- An AP story on who is opposed to such a soda tax (it's not just soda makers, but advertisers, the corn industry, etc.)
- An ethicist in the NYT takes on the anti-soda tax arguments
- Freakonomics on the fat tax
- Does poverty make people obese or is it the other way around?
- Demonizing and/or taxing soda in the NYT
- Why educating people on what's healthy is a better way to go than banning foods (who's talking about banning what foods?)
- Are "smart choices" food labels more about health or are they a deceptive tool for marketing?
- Tort reform is a "frivolous sideshow" to the healthcare debate
- Healthcare ideas losing out to ideology
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