SPECIAL
October 2011
No. 196 REPORT
Overreaching on Obesity: Governments
Consider New Taxes on Soda and Candy
By
Scott Drenkard Introduction Recently, this fervor has spilled over into
Analyst In the past two decades nutritionists, biologists, the political scene as many politicians and
Tax Foundation some scientists make the case for government
and doctors have become increasingly inter-
ested in the causes and prevention of obesity. intervention to help trim the nation’s waistline.
This fascination seems warranted; the incidence