Will the Fat Tax Make Us Healthy?

Fat Tax. An extra percentage of money attached to your twinkies, ho hos and soda pop. Raise your hand if you are appalled at the thought of the government being involved in your midnight binges in front of Nick at Night. After you calm down, go get yourself a mocha latte and think about it this way. That extra money (pennies really) could be a key  player in the war against becoming China's bitch. If that tax money is collected and applied to our national debt we could begin to change the dynamics of our economic policy.

Think of all the junk food you as an individual or family buy. Yes - all that fast food, junk food, soda, and crap is making us one fat nation. But do you think people are going to stop buying all of it just because there is a fat tax on it? It is all about personal responsibility - and that responsibility is not affected by pennies. It is affected by emotional attachments to food. Just like the cigarette and alcohol taxes, the fat tax will just be added in to the dollar amount and not even considered as government interference. People may grumble and shake their fists, but they will still buy their twinkies. People will still go to McDonalds. People will not suddenly become slim and healthy because their happy food is taxed.

Ok Liberatarians - what are your thoughts?

~ J

The New Mess

I'm still in a funk over the passage of the Health Care bill.  It's an atrocity.  Companies are already forecasting having to cut jobs to secure enough capital to pay for the benefits they must now provide.  That surely won't help the unemployment rate.  The other thing that's plagued my mind is how we'll pay for this mess.  Hopefully, we'll be able to repeal it before it goes into full effect.  While I haven't had the stomach to write about it, or much of anything, I have been reading.

Charles Krauthammer outlines the taxes we're most likely facing in this piece.