Extra taxes is a pusswad way of punishing behavior without having the balls to really punish it. I can see both sides of the debate on this: overfeeding is either child abuse that demands a government intervention, or an unfortunate reality but not a legitimate role of government. Those are the only two positions that make any sense. Splitting the difference is how we end up with a massive, complicated, fucked-up set of laws where no one has any idea where government stops - because it touches every aspect of your lives through non-criminal citations, tax penalties, incentives, etc.  Take the kids, or leave the kids - pick one. I'm going with "leave the kids" because I don't want politicians (nearly all of whom are fat tumblr-ass-kissing politically correct fuckholes) deciding if my kids are healthy or not.