For the past 60-70 years the fast food industry has been one of America's bittersweet phenomena. It's the foods people undeniably crave, served in a matter of minutes at a cost beyond reasonable, it almost seems too good to be true. With 60 million Americans serving fast food every day, it's safe to say it's very tempting (“Fast food Statistics,” 2014). Aside from all the goodness, most rational individuals are aware of the underlying immoral results of frequent fast food consumption. Giving way to the cliché, perfect for supporters of fast food, "Everything is good in moderation." With all the recent cuts and reforms targeting childhood obesity, currently one of the nation's largest epidemics, the thought of increasing taxes on fast food has become a hot topic. With sugary sodas already banned from public schools and multiple programs implemented against our nation's childhood obesity problems, a tax on fasting seems like just the next logical step toward solving this problem. Opponents believe it will have minimal effect and that it is just another tax on the poor. That said, the substantial gain in tax revenue that the government would derive from this decision and the reduction in consumption of highly fattening food among adolescents, there appear to be cognitive reasons to enforce such a law. 44% of Americans eat fast food at least once a week. (“Fast Food Statistics,” 2014) and children ages 6 to 14 eat fast food 157 million times per month (Ransohoff Julia, 2013). In the last 3 decades alone, obesity rates among children have more than tripled (Kalaidis Jen, 2013). It goes without saying that, whether once a year or three times a week, fast food is definitely part of the diet of most Americans. Acco...... middle of the document ......ica.Works Cited"Fast Food Statistics." Statistical brain RSS. Pew Research Center, January 1, 2014. Web. May 20, 2014. Kalaidis, Jen. “Should the United States Adopt a Fat Tax?” The week. Np, February 25, 2013. Web. May 20, 2014. Melnick, Meredith. "Fast Food's Biggest Customer: Not the Poor, But the Middle Class | TIME.com." Time. Tempo, November 7, 2011. Web. May 22, 2014. Messerli, Joe. “Should products that contribute to obesity (like Big Macs and Krispy Kreme donuts) be taxed?” BalancedPolitics.org - Fat Tax (pros and cons, arguments for and against, advantages and disadvantages). Np, August 11, 2011. Web. May 20, 2014.Pettinger, Tejvan. “Economics Essays: Fat Tax: Why We Should Tax Unhealthy Foods.” Economy Help. Np, July 14, 2007. Web. May 22, 2014. Ransohoff, Julia. "Fast food." Doctors, patient care, health education, medical research. Np, October 2013. Web. 20 May 2014.