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June 12, 2003

Fat Chance


    A proposal to tax junk food, video games and television commercials to pay for an obesity-prevention program faces stiff opposition from New York state lawmakers. (Inside Politics)
Posted by pecksnif at June 12, 2003 07:50 AM | TrackBack
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They're doing the same thing here but the funny thing is the woman that's proposing it aint so slender herself. She tried a soda tax last year but it failed.

The cigarette makers are bleeding so the libs needs to look to another trough. How about snack foods? No one has control over their habits, obviously.

Posted by: Molly on June 12, 2003 01:14 PM
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