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Instructions: You are to interview two people and record their responses on this form. You should state their name and their comments to your solution to the identified problem.

VI. I interviewed two individuals to see what their response would be to my (our) plan. Their responses are as follows.

"Although I understand the reasoning, I think the government needs to curb their spending before they create more taxes. Their spending habits need to be more in check. I see the potential benefit, but we need to look at what's happened to cigarettes. Sure, they collect more revenue, but does it correlate with less people smoking cigarettes? We live in a free society, and people don't need the government to tell them it's not okay to eat certain foods."- Brandon Fantozzi

"I think it is a preemptive measure that the government needs to take in order to avoid the costs we will have to take into account in healthcare. Obviously the cause is to prevent people from eating things we percieve as unhealthy, and this might be a good way to discourage people from making unhealthy choices. I think eventually we may be dodging a bullet by raising healthier kids."- Stephen Govertsen

VII. My (our) answer, based on our research, to their objections and concerns are

I think we should still place a tax on fast food items. We could have placed it on only children of a certain age, but I think that this would only create more problems. I think the best solution we could have is to place a small tax, something less than 2%, on fast food items to be placed in a specific account to be spent on providing healthier options for public school children and creating curriculum for elementary students to learn about eating healthy, because these are the types of habits they will develop as adults.