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June 13, 2006
Soda Pop Sin Tax
Posted by Dave Blount at June 13, 2006 3:34 PM
Guided by the principles that there could never be too many taxes or too much coercive meddling in other people's business, members of the American Medical Association are calling for a sin tax on soda pop.
Such a tax could raise $1.5 billion per year, claims the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is opposed to the consumption of most popular food.
The loot would supposedly go to fighting obesity — kind of like the way the zillions trial lawyers and their bureaucrat friends robbed from smokers went to fighting cancer.
Of course the primary concern is childhood obesity. "Consider the children" is always the last thing you hear before you get screwed.
According to studies, over-consumption of stuff like soda can be correlated with expanding waistlines. Soda taxes are presumably required to finance more of these groundbreaking studies.
Hat tip: William
