A delicious food tax?

Engber’s article suggests to make a fat tax for America to gain money from people buying junk foods and soda. This tax would take a cut out of the sales and would help America with its debts. Junk food is bad for the body and the brain, and yes it may give pleasure but at the same time it contains addictive chemicals that we do not need but we tend to love. The article says that after awhile of taking junk foods it will be like the same as taking cigarettes; They are both bad for you and addictive that taxing them could potentially be a good thing. Junk foods are addictive and looked at as a drug. Although, doing a fat tax seems to target some people in some bad ways. The article states that doing a fat tax would negatively impact poor, nonwhite people because they tend to love soft drinks and are most sensitive to prices. Engber says that even if you can not afford expensive nutritious drinks there is always water compared to purchasing soft drinks. The soda tax would help redistribute pleasure and may also help with the raising issue of obesity. There are already other laws against chemicals and behaviors that make people happy but tend to be also destructive. The idea of fat tax is trying to redistribute money and tax the foods that are destructive to ones health as the government has done with other things that destroy ones health including: cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs and chemicals.