Twinkie Tax Tactic

Jacob Sullum | 5.19.2004 10:41 AM

The global anti-obesity strategy presented at the World Health Organization meeting in Geneva today includes special taxes on "less-healthy foods." Soon we'll forget this policy proposal began as a joke.

Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books, September 2).