Chart of the Day: Our Upside-Down Food Policy
www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/chart-of-the-day-our-upside-down-food-policy/37235
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I'm sympathetic to the argument that taxing "bad" food is too blunt an instrument to use in the war against obesity (food isn't like cigarettes, because we don't need tobacco to live, etc...). But let's be clear: the federal government already has a tax policy affecting what we eat, and it dramatically distorts the price of our food ... and the size of our waists.
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