You?ve read in Carolina Journal that some North Carolina lawmakers want government to have an even greater role in determining what kids can eat at school.
It probably won?t surprise you to read a new TIME article detailing the interest legislatures across the country have in taxing soda.
The average American drinks a gal lon of soda a week, which delivers roughly 1,000 calories and no nutrition. The average American is also overweight or obese. Could changing one of those things help change the other?
A growing number of elected officials think so, which accounts for a spate of proposed new taxes on soda as a way to discourage consumption while at the same time raising money to fund other obesity-fighting initiatives.
Left unexplored? Debate about why government has any business caring about whether people are overweight or obese.
Also untouched is the soda tax advocates? argument that revenue raised from the new tax would help fight obesity. As we know, raising new revenue always allows government to pay for its next-lowest priority ? not for its highest priorities.
