Ezra Klein, of the Washington Post, had a quick thought this morning pertaining to the Soda Tax. If you are unaware of the Soda Tax, it is a tax on soda and other sugary drinks, most of which currently use High Fructose Corn Syrup as their sweetener, in hopes of lowering the consumption of a product that has been shown to cause obesity and have other negative health effects.
The No Food Tax Coalition has put together an advertising campaign asking voters to tell the federal government to stop telling us what we can eat while suggesting that the government needs to cut their budget. As Ezra points out the second statement is certainly true and his offer is to cut the $40 billion in federal government subsidies that corn growers currently receive in exchange for dropping the Soda Tax.
This would help to trim the Federal Deficit and end an unfair advantage that the corn growers currently receive, that flies in the face of free market ideology. It would probably mean an increase of a few pennies per can which is clearly not going to cause many people to lower their consumption but it's a good start.
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