A new theoretical paper in the Journal of Public Economics even suggests that a tax on junk food could increase obesity, especially among physically active people.

公共经济学杂志中的一篇新的理论性论文甚至指出：对垃圾食品征税可能会增加肥胖人群，特别是增加那些积极锻炼的人当中的肥胖现象。

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A more efficient tax would be a tax on producers of food, based on the difference between the cost of the ingredients before processing and the price for the finished product.

更有效的税收方式应是以食品成分在加工前的成本与食物成品价格之差为税基对食品生产商课税。

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However, they don't pay sales tax on food at the grocery store, unless the food they buy is prepared and ready to eat at a restaurant, a supermarket or deli.

然而，杂货店的食物就不需交销售税，除非是已经做好可以吃的食物(像餐馆、超市、熟食店的)。

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It could cut the tax rate on food and reduce proposed income-tax cuts to make up the revenue shortfall, or simply cut government spending across the board.

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He has backtracked on proposals that have met strong resistance, such as levying value-added tax on food and medicines.

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This is unfortunate because it would be difficult to devise a more regressive food tax on the poor and the elderly than the one promised by Proposition 37.

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