In the main, there are two reasons given for taxing soda and other heavily sugared products, including sugar itself. (I should point out that sugar is already subject to a…
That’s a quote from one of the people who’s on the losing end of Philadelphia’s new soda tax. Reason reports that, according to libertarian John Stossel, a $2 liter bottle…
Costco is looking out for its customers in Seattle with signs that show how much the “recovery fee” on sweetened beverages adds to the price of drinks and where to…
The Heritage Foundation features Coletti’s analysis of why the federal budget proposed by President Trump, which looks alot like NC’s reforms, could lead to the economic growth we’ve seen right…
Paige Winfield Cunningham of the Washington Examiner looks into government efforts to tax people out of eating unhealthy food. Researchers with the Urban Institute have concluded that while well-designed taxes…
Governing magazine reports on Mexico’s passage of junk food and soda taxes and what it could mean for the U.S. Actually, the legislation, which took effect in January, created an…
The idea of taxing soda has been around for years but this week the head of the Centers for Disease Control endorsed the idea of taxing “unhealthy foods.” And just…
A new study out of Japan finds that obese people live about five years longer than very skinny people while slightly overweight people live the longest. Specifically the results show…
You might change your mind after reading about the case advocates are building for “tobacco-style ‘obesity taxes.'” (Business Week wins bonus points for the photo.) Rather than building a tax…
The meddlers and social engineers never run out of ideas for trying to make others behave just the way they should — i.e., the way the meddlers and social engineers…
Absurd headlines such as “We’re eating ourselves to death” (alas, science has failed to produce an alternative to eating) are just the half of it. When a major study concludes…