Pros and cons of fat tax?

Answer 1

Pros: 1. It helps discourage consumers from eating foods that aren't good for them. 2. Health care costs of obesity are skyrocketing, and even healthy, average weight people must share in this burden. 3. The extra money could be used by the government towards research and anti-obesity programs. Cons: 1. People are responsible for their weight, not just the foods they eat. Irt's unfair to tax a skinny person for a Big Mac because it could "potentially cause obesity", when that person is not obese and may never be. 2. Virtually any product can make you obese if abused. 3. A tax would punish successful buisnesses for producing products people want. 4. The government already taxes just about everything else in our lives. 5. Additional taxes lead to job cuts in the affected buisnesses and contribute a degradiation of consumer purchasing power. ~MG