A bunch of busybody doctors are trying to wedge the ever-expanding gut of government into your fridge:

Doctors will this week declare war on America’s soft drinks industry by calling for a ‘fat tax’ to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic.

Delegates at the powerful American Medical Association’s annual conference will demand a levy on the sweeteners put in sugary drinks to pay for a massive public health education campaign.

They will also call for the amount of salt added to burgers and processed foods to be halved.

You are too stupid to know what to eat, so these doctors want to use the government to punish you by taking more of your money if you don’t eat what they want. Your money will then be used to pay for advertising that will scold you over your food choices.

At some point, government will expand to exert so much control over our lives and finances that we cease being autonomous adults and effectively become government’s children. We’ll be one step closer to that day if these doctors have their way.