"Why tax junk food? Just stop subdizing the oil industry, the pesticide industry and the corn industry, then junk food will be more expensive than organic."
First, when you tax junk food, that goes to healthcare. How you eat makes a difference in your health.
Second, sugar itself is ALWAYS cheaper than anything that's organic because conventional produce are much cheaper - you spray bugs to kill them and as a result, you save your crops and that means huge savings. Organics are ALWAYS more expensive and there's NO evidence supporting that organics are better for you. ZERO. As long as you eat plenty of plants, you'll live as long as those who eat organics.
Organic sugar is just pure non-sense - all refined sugar go through a lot of chemical processes to make it white and last for a looooong time. Same with flour. And salt.
Most synthetic pesticides are MUCH safer than natural pesticides - for example, they developed synthetic versions of natural pesticide that gives more toxicity for insects but significantly lower toxicity for humans. In other words, it's less toxic for humans. Also, they disappear quickly from produce. Eating any residues will be metabolized safely with NO toxic effects. If we used natural pesticides, we'd be more likely to be poisoned.
You can make organic foods and they're still as bad as conventional foods. You can use organic sugar in soda and it's STILL not better for you than a coke with sugar. It's still sugar - still junk.
We should focus on how diet affect health in the long term and we know from countless studies - the more junk food you eat, the worse your health will be. The MORE you eat, the fatter you get. So, in order to combat medical costs, you should pay MORE taxes for what you eat.
