Obesity costs American taxpayers billion$$$ every year in Medicaid... Hey, if I'm going to be asked to participate in paying for medical treatment for people who decided they wanted to poison their bodies with bad food then I'm all for them paying their own way...

Note: Not all people who are obese have bad diets... Many eat sensibly but just have DNA that gets in the way of them keeping the weight off... These people don't buy junk to eat so those folks wouldn't pay taxes on junk food...

I mean, it's a lot like smoking... Medicaid, the payer of last resort, ends up paying for millions of smoking related diseases...

These people think they deserve a free ride... They don't... There is a reason why bad drivers pay more for insurance...

Taxing junk food is the most logical way to fund Medicaid related disease from junk food...

And, no... Ron Paul would have people being turned away at the hospitals... That ain't America... That's Somalia...

B~