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Old 06-20-2003, 08:13 AM   #18
Donut
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Originally posted by Micah Foehammer:
How does the fat tax single out the poor, Desdicado??? I'm not a fan of the tax in the first place, but I fail to see how the lower income families are singled out?
" A levy on fatty foods would be widely perceived as a regressive tax because people on lower incomes tend to eat proportionally larger quantities of cheap, high-fat food"

It's more expensive to eat healthy foods.
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