I’ve sort of been on the fence about the recent trend of taxing junk food, even though I do suspect that if people have to shell out more money for unhealthy foods, they might eat less of them. Hard to say for sure (I admit I haven’t read any research on this issue recently).
In any case, I hadn’t been on Indexed for a while, but she totally nailed it on the head with this one:
I love a good doughnut as much as anyone, but as a rare to-be-savored treat, only. And from a really, really good doughnut shop.