Colby Carter

February 15^th, 2012

Title: Bad food? Tax it

Thesis: The number of obese people in America is steady increasing year by year, the foods that cause this are usually the cheapest, so this theory is to raise the cost of those fatty foods, lower the cost of healthy foods and the number of obese people will decrease.

A. How do you justify taxes foods and increasing the cost of “bad” foods?

1. Per-Unit tax
2. Consumption of unhealthy beverages decreases, so does public health costs
3. Make the change, and see the reward
4. Examples of other countries that are doing this already

B. While this may seem like a hard thing to accomplish, it has been done before and the results are very impressive.

1. 1998 Tobacco settlement
2. Sugary drinks only add calories, not replace
3. Examples of the Tobacco settlement and the doubts that people have about this

C.The predictions for what will happen to Americans if this is put to action is very convincing.

1. List statistics
1. List other ideas of change

D. The changes that would occur due to this increase in tax can only benefit Americans, it does not make sense that a country with health issues like our should not implement something of this nature.