Should the Government Impose a "Fat Tax" on Junk Food

Should the Government Impose a "Fat Tax" on Junk Food?

I was watching Fox and Friends last night and heard a brief story on the fact that the government is now wanting to impose a tax on junk food. The comment that was made, after the fact, was what caught my attention. They were joking around with the idea that the government will be forcing all Americans to exercise. They were talking about how we will all be getting visitors, to our doors, making us do push-ups, and run around the block.
The very first sentence in this article states, "Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States." They go on to state that over half of us are obese and of that 300,000 have to be treated (costing the public health departments about $71 billion annually) for diet-related diseases. The question that is on the table is : Do we start treating junk food like it is tobacco? The Center for Science is proposing a this new tax to generate funding for public health and nutrition campaigns. Some health advocates are applauding this idea, while others such as the food industry, believe that this is the governments way of acting like a nanny. The National Nutrition Summit in June, brought ought opposition on the "fat tax". This article goes on from here with two different opinions, one to support and one not.
I feel that this is the first step toward communism. But that is just me. I do not think that the government should have the right to not only tell us what is the right things to be eating, but also that we must exercise. Also, it is not fair that they are classifying all obese together as bad eaters. Not all, who are obese, eat badly. There is more to it than that. I, myself, have a lot of family members that are obese, and it has nothing to do with the way that they eat or the lack of exercise. It is medical. It really aggravates me that there is so much generalization in our government. What I mean by that is: They clump people into categories for the sake of numbers, without actually stating the differences between. There is more than one reason foe obesity. But not once in this entire article, was it stated that not all obesity is caused from poor eating or the lack of exercise.
The reason for me reaction to the article is for the simple fact that it is not the whole truth. Every number (that is relevant to population) is generalized. There is not one mention of the things that can also cause obesity, such as a Thyroid Disease. They have simply put all obese Americans into a category. I think that this is wrong. I think that they will do whatever they need to to get their numbers to a position that will pass a bill. And it's wrong.