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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:35 PM Original message |
Junk food tax: Fighting obesity one penny at a time |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Tried that in Washington |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 12:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Your quote |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 02:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Are you from Washington? |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hurrah! We can vote for YOU to be Food Police Captain! |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Don't shoot the messinger! n/t |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Let's call it what it is: A REGRESSIVE TAX. Unrec |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Of course, but New Dems love regressive taxes! |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. Make it $1.00 an ounce!!! |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. I train my dogs with more forethought than that. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. Heaven forbid a little personal responsibility be the solution |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. First, why not cut the subsidies for sugar and corn used for corn syrup? |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 06:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Indeed. n/t |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
9. But the ads for all the junk and garbage food |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
11. How about tax breaks for decent stores to open in America's food deserts? n/t |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. 'Lawmakers' don't care about shit wages, but they care about obesity? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-25-11 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. Well, since revenues from tobbacco are shrinking, government has to replace it somehow, |
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