Food taxes work

You can’t talk about healthcare in America without talking about obesity.  We are fat, and it’s not because of genetics or big bonedness.  Our food policy pushes us to cheap food and away from healthy food, and the best way to rectify the mispricing is to add a tax to unhealthy food that would raise roughly enough revenue to offset the costs of said food.  Finally, there’s rigorous evidence, from the University of Buffalo, that taxing unhealthy food does decrease the amount of bad food people consume.  It turns out that people respond to incentives!

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