Fat Tax?, No, I didn't say "flat tax..."

Gus Van Horn reports that doctors are now calling for a tax on soft drinks.

Ugh. Where to start?

This is another example of something I've often seen, something I just happened to comment on not an hour ago:

In this case, the rights-abridging process that they refuse to challenge is the fact of socialized medicine imposing the consequences of peoples' personal lifestyle choices on the populace as a whole.

The question is: “how do we prevent people from burdening others with the consequences of their choices, which they alone should bear?”

When socialized medicine is taken as a man-made fact, the answer is blindingly simple: “Un-socialize medicine. Then everyone must pay their own costs.”

But most don’t look at it like that. For some reason, it completely escapes them as a possibility. Socialized medicine is taken as an unchangeable fact of nature. Instead, the answer is always more socialism, more government, and the steady erosion of personal freedom.

For people as smart and dedicated to science and reason as doctors are, it is absolutely shameful that they are calling, with outstretched arms, for their masters to clap the irons on them.

I’ll close by noting that, not 250 years ago, Americans overthrew the government when it dared tax our precious beverages.

Shame on you, AMA. Shame.

-Inspector