Taxing Bad Foods

So I took a little break from writing here - except I didn't write it here. It was an internal memo.

Anyway, I'm going to take the rest of the month off and come back in August with more external memos. But for now, I highly suggest reading Mark Bittman's column, Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables.

Yes, it would take a long while for what he's proposing to happen across the board, but it just seems so wrong that if you have a small income, it's so much easier to buy not-so-good-for-you food than it is to buy fresh fruits and veggies.

And the part about the average American consuming 44.7 gallons of soda a year? I had no idea. There was a time where I probably was right up there, but nowadays I don't even reach 1 gallon/yr. More on that in a future post.

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