"Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received $1 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study the relationship between "fat taxes" and food consumption, diet quality and obesity.And therein lie two problems.
The funding for the two-year project was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The study will link state tax rates associated with restaurants and with specific sugar- and fat-laden foods and beverages (soda, candy, baked goods and chips) to individual survey data.
Using multiple data sets from a 10-year period -- 1997 through 2007 -- the researchers will determine if differential tax rates equate to differences in consumption, diet quality and body mass index, or BMI, for children, adolescents and adults...
Current fat-tax rates are fairly low, ranging, for example, from 0 to 7 percent for soda."
1. Group punishment.
2. Fat people are neither targeted nor taxed high enough.
There is a proper way to do a fat tax and save the study money.
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