Hands Off My Pizza!
Harvard economist David M. Cutler jumps on the sugar-tax boat this morning in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. Arguing that the Obama health-care reform program is worth salvaging because it will help flatten the medical inflation curve, he nevertheless faults the proposals for lack of nutrition-sin taxes. The program “provides new incentives for physicians to focus on preventive and chronic care and opens Medicare to finding new ways of supporting prevention,” he writes. “The only area of weakness is the lack of a junk-food tax or a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. Grade: Partial credit.” more








