Go Plant-Strong! The Daily Beet: Tips, Advice and Stories  A Tax
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the author    • http://glasscottage.net Don Bistrow      I read
the article and don’t believe in high taxes to control behavior.
Government is in our live too much, it’s expanding and as you
know, they’re after salt too.      In a freedom loving country
we must keep choices to the individual and as much as I would
like everyone to be healthier we can use public services ads or
education to do that, not politicians seeking more ways to get
into our pockets and bank accounts.      Please continue to
promote your wonderful book, I do. I also promote a free society
who must make choice themselves.    • William      Would that be
government funded education you are talking about? Paid for by
taxes? This tax would not take the product off the shelf, you
would still be allowed the freedom to spend your money on a
sugary drink. If the tax revunues are used to subsidise
healthier foods, how w