Soda, candy, fast food, etc taxation really is pretty outrageous.. but then again.. so is all taxation! Anyway.. I saw a really good piece on this particular topic today:

Robert Murphy is old enough to remember when libertarians and conservatives would object to government interference with tobacco and alcohol by asking, “What next? Will the government start taxing fatty foods and put warning labels on fettuccine alfredo?” He can remember that the proponents of the “serious” regulations dismissed this particularly slippery slope argument as absolutely absurd, that nobody would ever advocate a tax on fatty foods.
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