Tax Junk Food/Regulate Contents?

[Michael-5]

dsgrue3 said:

I don't understand why anyone is PRO-Tax anything. Just boggles the mind. Yeah, let's raise food prices for everyone because some people can't stop shoving pie into their mouths!

It's like I've said before: personal responsibility. IF you want to avoid the salt, fat, you can.

So why not make a tax on high salt products, force people to make their products less salty (say a hamburger) to avoid this tax, and then we can let people add salt if they want to? Wouldn't this make sense? Why should people be forced to make an effort to avoid salt/fat when it makes more sense to have people make an effort to eat salty/fatty foods instead?

Also I'm not proposing we tax all fatty/salty foods, just the more salty/fatty foods. Like I said before, if you tax chips with 15% or more fat content per 50g serving, there will still be a lot of chip brands avoiding the tax, and it's not hard for doritos to make a low fat version of their chips for the same price. This wouldn't affect peoples wallets at all, that is, unless they specifically want to eat high fat and high salt foods, and don't want to make it themselves.