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someone ought to put this out there and and then maybe we can round up and and
that is
it if if we can agree that this is a public we agree
is a public health issue but kevin newman is the government's places if
it's not literally communicable disease
what about taxing it
and would that be too aggressive with at the appropriate under i see a study here
from the uh...
from uh... yale university study that apparently
each one percent increase in so it's actually correlated with a
point zero zero three point drop in body mass index of personally attacks on
beverages
we'll have to be very high in order to reduce body mass significantly
although just a
anyone wanted to whoever wants to take that for
research kathmandu thoughts on that tax
jordan i think that's what i would pay a bit weapons into this same question and
uh... at what your other debts was test reading wicked
how do we deal with the social costs of that them right now we have the you very
very broad entitlement the weekday
we see this
but like i don't cheat don't favor the fact that i think that what the company
that packed
technical briefing uh... it partially what you think that and occluded tax in
particular tech only one photo
into very efficient way to reduce
uh... to reduce consumption uh... much less body mass overall
uh... but also i think that rebuilt albeit he moved his contention
that encourage people to eat more and then have the car socialite unit that
other people pay their health care card
incumbent more with the pack
it's not enough of the message against the financial markets are already
planning i think we need to look at limiting the backup to entitlements are
people who have in the family that we limit access different kinds of
insurance company perk of coverage for people who is not so you actually think
that you actually think that that's out of these people are getting too much
healthcare bills that
i think that did the bride and even unintended consequence of a very very
broad and ever-increasing healthcare entitlement
that people don't bear the costs of their own behavior and that's a big
difference between getting cancer
and drinking appointed unless you're going to present in many cases is it
going
into the emergency room
you know i think preventive care and and and when you do have medicaid there many
doctors who won't cover it side
concentrate my without without tax
now you know i'm gonna interfere based on hardness african i think it covered
and he's become more efficient overall not by restricting access q uh... social
security disability programs anything like that
uh... but you know that
i don't know if you know about the u_s_ department of agriculture is currently
contemplating
uh... whether to you and bail out the center industry and apparently there are
a lot but that is that the other server industry and what but make no mistake
instead they're and that is helping to track this epidemic in this country now
we have in everything from brad pitt so that they could even take in the mid
bear even festival funk and vegetables that if terrible
and and as you well know if not obesity that's actually driving his car
conditions actually that that if you have are having a sedentary population
that evil of bad food eating and drinking that boot but we need to be
looking at how the government of on one hand encouraging uh... eight
distribution dissemination of after that the other hand appetizing m
uh... overall
but out back to the point out that the taxes
actually believed that especially low-income population can depend on both
ends
either currently being a parent uh... by the fat cut companies uh... better are
politically literally using them articulate doubts on any responsibility
and that have a whole or beefy crisis
abut depending on the design of a float attacks uh... or any pac now i'm not
permitting coverage effective trying to get to the hardest matter depending on
the design it can also bikinis in government patient can also count the
community
uh...
particularly in those higher taxes that don't actually even the revenue raised
to go back in the reinvested the health of communities meaning that raising the
taxes and any giving them the cold their budget
uh... or lab without interracial or actually
let me know if i could come to help her population alan greenspan's reports has
actually one of the was
doctor my writing more president ceo
of global policy solutions at my rocky moments wid ur and katherine may who
wore the managing editor of reason magazine act cape may new ward
thank you so much for joining us to take action is than a fascinating debate and
uh... my
i think we ask you to stick around to talk about
a criticism that was launched against you in the washington post
so uh... stay tuned folks