It's not quite the life-and-death issue Don Boudreaux correctly chastises him for, but last month, David Frum also made a bizarre case for taxing" caloriffic" foods on his National Review blog. It was a really strange post, full of anecdotal observations and more than a few assertions that were just plain wrong.

I put together a thorough, line-by-line rebuttal that ran on Tech Central Station last week.