Health Investment Petition:
- Goal: Set a standard for healthy and unhealthy foods and/or products.
Encourage people of the United States to eat healthier by creating a subsidy to decrease healthy food prices determined by the government.
Discourage unhealthy eating by taxing it by an amount determined by the government.
- Pros: Healthy food prices will drop making healthy foods more attractive to consumers.
Unhealthy foods will become less attractive to consumers because of higher prices.
Health care costs will decrease because of overall health of the population will increase saving tax money.
- Cons: Unhealthy foods will become more expensive for consumers who would like to purchase the item.
Small business may suffer.
Prices may vary because of variables that are uncontrollable.



