Earlier this week I came across a headline that suggested candy taxes don’t inhibit caloric intake. The report, dubbed “Overreaching on Obesity: Governments Consider New Taxes on Soda and Candy,” drives home the notion that mandating a healthier public through sin taxes isn’t effective.
Earlier this week I came across a headline that suggested candy taxes don’t inhibit caloric intake. According to a recent report by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. (where else, come to think of it?), the popularity of state legislatures to slap taxes on the sale of candy and soda in the name of curbing obesity doesn’t quite measure up as an means of improving the citzenry’s health.