Title: Bad food? Tax it
Thesis: With the number of obese people in America increasing rapidly, something must be done to change our eating habits. With the cheapest food being the unhealthiest during hard financial times Americans must figure out a way to create a healthy affordable diet, to save lives.
Which foods to tax and by how much, explain why
- Which unhealthy foods are being consumed the most
- Soft drinks with loads of sugar that are purchased in great amounts by unhealthy americans
- Fast food restaurants making the purchase of unhealthy meals easy
- Statistics as to how americans have become over weight
How to fix this, and predictions on how easy it will be
- 1998 Tobacco settlement and how increasing prices on tobacco slowed down the sales
- If get people on board for purchasing healthy foods they will... more people purchasing and producing could lower prices
- The benefits that will come from having healthier citizens eating better foods have a very wide range of benefits from helping pollution from food factories, to lowering health insurance costs for people in the future
How to convince americans to get on board with the change- benefits
- List of benefits for healthy americans
- All statistics listed in the article
Conclusion: By implementing taxes on unhealthy foods, it will take away the ease of purchase for Americans hopefully leading them to go for the healthy choices when spending money on food. Improving eating habits will lead to overall healthier Americans.
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