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A Fat Tax, Curbing Our Junk Food or Bailing Out Our Financial Woes!

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A Fat Tax, Curbing Our Junk Food or Bailing Out Our Financial Woes!Todayshealthsite.com

Todays Health Article

April 17th, 2011

Today is overwelmed with financial woes, budget crisis both federal and state, and medical costs at a all time high. Now, looking at a health care coverage that has a T in front of millions, the second most expensive war, and now engaging ( Lybia) making Financial News even thinner, why not a fat tax. Perhaps it is a logical plan… we need to become healthier and the government needs the money. This is not the first time this was proposed during our financial woes.

In fact, not too long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the winter of 1942, a physiologist,  A.J. Carlson made a radical suggestion: “If the nation’s largest citizens were charged a fee—say, $20 for each pound of overweight—we might feed the war effort overseas while working to subdue an “injurious luxury” at home. 10th APS President (1923-1925)

 Almost seven decades later, the “fat tax” is back!

A fat tax is a tax or surcharge that is placed upon fattening foods, beverages or individuals. A fat tax aims to discourage  unhealthy diets and offset the economic costs of obesity. A fat tax  purpose is to decrease the consumption of foods that are linked to obesity.

Several studies  have suggested that, as the price of a food increases, consumption of that food decreases. In fact, eating behavior may be more responsive to price increases than to nutritional education. Estimates suggest that a 1 cent per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may reduce the consumption of those beverages by 25%.  

However, there is also evidence that obese individuals are less responsive to changes in the price of food than normal-weight individuals.

Fat Tax Debate

  Although, the notion hasn’t generated much enthusiasm in Congress,  fat taxes are spreading through our state legislatures. Now, four-fifths of the states,  now recieve a cut on the sales of junk food or soda.

 However, voices are crying out for a federal fat tax, and are getting  heard too. The New York Times recently endorsed a penny-per-ounce soda tax, and Michael Pollan has made a convincing argument for why the insurance industry may soon throw its weight behind the proposal.

Even President Obama said he likes the idea in a recent interview with Men’s Health. (For the record, Stephen Colbert is against the measure: “I do not obey big government; I obey my thirst.”)

The Public still has strong reservations about the Fat Tax.

 The state-level penalties now in place have turned out to be way too small to make anyone lose weight, and efforts to pass more heavy-handed laws have so far fallen short. But proponents say it’s only a matter of time before taxing junk food feels as natural as taxing cigarettes. The latter has been a tremendous success, they argue, in bringing down rates of smoking and death from lung cancer.

 In theory, a steep tax on sweetened beverages could do the same for overeating and diabetes.

What all this theory is forgetting is that 64% of our nation is over weight, which common logic would tell you that they would also be responsible for the magnitude of sales for junk food. These people are responsible for a large amount of junk food sales. Though not to endorse junk food or dis-endorse the Fat Tax, no matter what the price some will still eat and drink these foods no matter what the price.

Many people also argue it quite frankly is the only food they can afford, and placeing tax on their daily food would create financial hard ship, effecting the poor with limited incomes.

Many feel its not our health and welfare our government agencies are concerned about at all, but another outlet to dig into our pocket books to fund our over budgeted State and Federal spending.

Other feel exactly this way, and are not afraid to tell you…Its their right to eat, smoke, or drink what ever they feel like it, and they do not need any government body to tell them, fat or no fat!

Todays Health Comments

Today may be just around the corner, when you will be asked to weighed in… not just at the Doc’s office, but for other purchases, medical service, car insurance, Medicaid, Airplane tickets, and you can see where this can be going. The Fat Tax may not only effect the food you eat, but your weight may have a price tag, in the near future. I Recently published an article about how many of the Health Agencies, Health Guidelines, WalMart, McDonalds, and Kraft Foods all have been under fire and have taken steps to reduce their impact on obesity. Today we must take personal steps to a healthier life or we may be placed into sterio type life, wrapped around rules and regulations that have not worked yet.

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April 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Todays Foods | 1145 comments

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