CHICAGO - The tax police are planning a major snack attack. Potato chips, cookies, sodas, candy--a $30 billion-a-year business--are being targeted by more than a dozen revenue-starved states under the misguided impression that by charging a few extra cents per can or bag they can trim their budget deficits and encourage the rest of us to slim down. Fat chance-- two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese. Obesity rates have doubled for adults and tripled for children in their teens over the past 20 years.
Grocers, snack-food makers and soft drink companies are opposed to the taxes, arguing they are unnecessary, burdensome and impossible to collect.
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