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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You have decided what the proper choices in diet is for people assuming they can not make the right ones.
You think it should be enforced by forcing everyone to pay far more for such food items via a tax which makes them unable to buy them. It doesn't matter if you are a healthy person who wants a bag of chips or someone with a problem. EVERYONE has to pay extra so you can price it out of the poors range.
You would also therefore be regulating industry to do so.
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are proper dietary choices for people, there's quite a bit of research on the subject, and our educational system and lack of UHC has hobbled people's abilities to make informed choices in self-care. Those problems need to be addressed, but there's further support for the levy.
A pigovian tax certainly isn't a revolutionary or especially socialist idea, and the fact that it also promotes moderation is a side benefit. EVERYONE has to pay for the effects of obesity anyway, through higher health care costs and lost productivity, but this particular extra cost is going directly to combat those health and economic impacts.
We already regulate the food industry.
As for Goldberg's Godwin Delusion, I'm not derailing this thread any further with regard to hack punditry.