You can whine and cry about the ONLY solution to this problem is for a person to stop choking down a Big Mac at McDonalds and we will realign within the universe and all will be well. Frankly that is a bunch of crap as the problem is at a much larger scale than that now as doctors are seeing certain types of diabetes that have never been seen before with children and it is due to obesity. You cry about a tax that won't even affect you if everyone here is on the Richard Simmons model of exercising and eating about the fundamental violation of freedom. I don't smoke so last time I checked, I don't pay into big tobacco either by not buying their product or the taxes on their product so it is not exactly any money out of my pocket. Same scenario with something coming from Burger Slime.

I don't know if the taxes would work but something needs to be done about it or else ALL of us will be paying for this dilemma down the not-so-distant road as the problem is at an epidemic level now. Whether the costs will reflect through healthcare as rates will reflect regardless because of this magnitude or coffin makers are going to be charging more because of the amount of material needing to be used...this isn't a problem that isn't going away even if we want to stick our heads in the sand and proclaim that you are not the one shoving the crap down your throat. Tax the crap out of the garbage....who cares....I don't buy or eat that garbage and if it curbs just a small percent, then that is a huge number that prevented the hogs to feed at the troff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22...1_United_States

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-...ion-researchers

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/health/101118/fat-and-fatter-worlds-10-fattest-countries