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I had to comment on an article that I just read on a Yahoo news piece…it talked about “US Researchers” whomever they are, have concluded that an 18% tax on pizza would help lower obesity and health issues and lower the average persons weight by 5 pounds a year. This is all stemming from the soda tax that a few states are pushing these days. I am not sure how the industry should proceed as a whole and I am sure the big guys will have their own healthy campaigns up and running sooner than later…but I think the small independent operators should somehow bond together and make a stand. Pizza is not junk food. It can be a good balance of major food groups but the few idiots that want to just tax us some more figure lets hit an easy to single out market. Pizza. They can’t go after the sub shops… Jarod lost 200 pounds at Subway… how can they tax that. I bet if we really looked at the nutritional data of a $5 footlong and compared it to a couple of slices of quality pie the pizza would in most cases win and taste a heck of a lot better. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas throw them out here. Let’s not sit idle while you take a risk of loosing more of your bottom line to the State. Will your customers pay this for a large pizza: $20 X 1.18% = $23.60 plus your regular local taxes…DAMN! I guess selling those $5 pizzas might not look that bad if you have to add the “Pizza Tax” on top… $5 X 1.18% = $5.90 plus local taxes. Lets stop this before it starts!!! 
