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Taxing Food And Beverage Products: A Public Health Perspective And A New Strategy For Prevention, Jennifer L. Pomeranz
Taxing Food And Beverage Products: A Public Health Perspective And A New Strategy For Prevention, Jennifer L. Pomeranz
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The power to tax and spend is considered a primary government power, and the use thereof is associated with great public health achievements. The greatest public health challenge at present stems from the increase in obesity and chronic diseases due to poor nutrition. Several taxation strategies have emerged in the health and economic literature to raise revenue, deter consumption, and address food prices and obesity directly. These proposals include taxing obese individuals, taxing problematic food products, and instituting a tax based on certain food components. This article weighs each proposal's value and disadvantages and concludes by proposing a new tax …
Taxing The Platypygous, James J. White
Taxing The Platypygous, James J. White
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This Article maintains that obesity in the United States is an enormous public health issue that causes the health care costs of the obese Americans greatly to exceed those of citizens of normal weight. Recognizing that that much of that cost will be born by publicly financed programs and that the taxes supporting those programs will constitute an externality that the fat impose on the thin, the Article proposes a tax on high calorie food-but only when that food is purchased by the obese. The Article addresses many of the administrative, moral and other objections to a tax aimed at …
Shame, Blame, And The Emerging Law Of Obesity Control, Lindsay Wiley
Shame, Blame, And The Emerging Law Of Obesity Control, Lindsay Wiley
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In using law as a tool to combat the obesity epidemic, legal scholars and policymakers are drawing heavily on the lessons of tobacco control. This Article describes the resulting emergence of "obesity control law" and argues for a radical reorientation of it from a "denormalization" strategy based on the tobacco control experience to a "destigmatization" strategy based on the HIV prevention experience. The war on obesity is nearing a political crossroads. Subsidies and food industry regulations aimed at making our environment more conducive to physical activity and healthy eating are in danger of losing out to cheaper and more politically …
Shame, Blame, And The Emerging Law Of Obesity Control.Pdf, Lindsay Wiley
Shame, Blame, And The Emerging Law Of Obesity Control.Pdf, Lindsay Wiley
Lindsay Wiley