" has anyone really seen what the schools serve for breakfast and lunches...hily my god, come on, talking about parents making kids fat .... wow the schools ,I know want to serve healthy but due to $$ they like the rest of us serve what is filling. "

" I don't understand why the tax is being limited to regular soda. Every overweight person I know drinks Diet Soda; it doesn't help. Plus, the sweetener in diet soda is a known carcinogen. Lets get all the kids drinking that! If they want to help obesity they should put a tax on ALL processed foods. Anyway, the tax is ridiculous and will do nothing to help obesity.

I agree that not allowing people to purchase soda and junk foods with food stamps might help the problem, as long as cooking classes and/or nutritional counseling were made available to families receiving public assistance. "

" I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that this so-called "fat tax" is a good idea is seriously disillusioned. The childhood obesity issue is just being used as an excuse to add another tax to the budget. It is just justifying poor parenting. The bottom line is that parent needs to monitor what their child consumes & to encourage them into other activities other than video games & watching tv. Our education system also needs to reform physical education. It's nothing compared to when I was in school. It also doesn't help that we now have 300 lbs football players in high school because they want to make to the NFL & make all kinds of money. My point is that there are so many factors in childhood obesity that to think that this "fat tax" as some sort of magic bullet that's going to make childhood obesity go away is pure ignorance. "

" This tax is ridiculous!! This will do nothing to curb childhood obesity. The parents who fill their children full of soda and junk will continue to do so because they are not concerned about their well being and no tax is going to turn a neglectful parent into a concerned one. If the government is so concerned about my child why are they trying to cut school funding? This is just one way to bleed the middle class a little more. If the government is concerned with people eating junk then why is it legal to purchase soda and candy with food stamps? Thats what should be cut. You should only be able to puchase healthy food with goverment money!! "

" Fat tax IS a good idea. Parents are the blame for obese children. They set the standards early in a child life for eating and drinking habits. Rule of physics, you eat more than needed you get fat, you eat less you maintain a normal weight. Of course many people do not want this tax it’s because many are obese, unfortunately. "