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Old 04-26-2006, 05:30 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
What's wrong with a fat tax? "The price of the health care" is used to justify taxing cigarettes so why can't it be used to justify taxing unhealthy food?
It would be way too difficult to regulate. Cigarettes are a relatively homogeneous product, a cigarette is a cigarette. Junk food comes in all forms, how do you classify which foods are junk food and which ones aren't?
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