It isn't a solution at all, and no where CLOSE to being "reasonable". What people refuse to get is SOMEONE makes the determination what is "sin" and deserving of a tax. People are cool when it's ciggs, or booze, but start taxing bacon, meat, eggs, milk anything that isn't tofu, what have you and people flip. Well too fricken late because you opened the door. If we would get rid of medicare and medicaid and allow insurances to compete and offer tailored plans or high deductable plans that make sense..we wouldn't have to be linked to anyone and people could feel the pain of their own mistakes. No, that's never a solution. it's so much more "reasonable" to try to make a determination about the healthfullness of millions of foods for millions of seperate bodies and lifestyles and assign them tax values.
Never mind the millions of things that contribute to health and ill health. This isn't a "slippery slope" argument..but rather an argument that it isn't even POSSIBLE to sin tax people into health. Health and nutrition are far to complex for that to even begin to work. Not to mention that the poor are more likely to be obese and more likely to be on assistance..a price change makes no difference to them. They are provided for. But if someone who works hard all week wants to treat the fam to pizza night..they are the ones shafted, like always.
