The Navajo Nation Will Have the First Junk Food Tax in the U.S.

How should governments govern soda? An outright ban on large sugary drinks? A tiny tax? Or not at all? This debate has been playing in New York, Berkeley, and places in between—and one community recently made drastic moves to target people’s eating habits.

The Navajo National Council just announced that they have approved a 2 percent increase in sales tax on foods like pastries, fried foods, desserts, chips and sodas, reports Leilani Clark for Mother Jones. She writes:

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