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On one hand you wouldn't have to pay this tax if you do not buy these products, as junk food is bad for you, and non-essential - like a tax on cigarettes.
On the flip-side however, I also think it can become a slippery slope; candy bars are bad for you, sugary cereals are bad for you, ice cream is bad for you, cheeseburgers are bad for you, etc.
The other big problem I have with this, is that diet drinks will not carry this proposed tax, but aspertame is even more dangerous to your health than corn syrup or sugar, and what about foods with MSG, high saturated fat levels, heavy metals, etc?
It's complicated, but I do believe our food choices should be healthier in general. As long as the US diet consists of corn syrup, MSG, aspertame, and tons of processed foods, coupled with less exercise than ever before, clearly SOMETHING must be done before we are either all obese, or paying for all of those of us who are, via higher health care costs.
I am pro-capitalism, but I am anti-large corporate interests. We should not become lab experiments for the big corps, while they rack in giant profits. When sodas used sugar instead of corn syrup things were not this bad, but corn syrup is cheaper, so now the junk foods we consume are more harmful than ever before, and don't even get me started on aspertame...
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