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Twinkie-tax proponent Kelly Brownell has long argued that we should "subsidize the cost of healthy foods, so they cost less [and] increase the cost of bad foods so they cost more." In 1998, US News & World Report labeled his tax one of "16 Silver Bullets - Smart Ideas to Fix the World." But in order to actually pass such an tax, Brownell has recently toned down his rhetoric. |
According to US News, when Brownell first tried to generate media coverage for a steep tax on high-calorie foods, he said: "Hit junk-food junkies where it hurts: in their wallets" by "slapping high-fat, low-nutrition food with a substantial government 'sin' tax." "The idea," said US News, "would be to make high butterfat chocolate-chocolate chip ice cream more expensive relative to low-fat yogurt in the hopes that more Americans would reach for the yogurt." Brownell - Now: Since teaming up with Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the new fat-tax rhetoric has been toned down for easier public digestion: "A small tax may be more politically feasible and would mostly go unnoticed by the public." "[L]et's charge a penny or two tax on soft drinks or other junk foods… to fund public health campaigns." |
this is the joy of big government. |
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yes. there should also be a tax for people who don't have jobs also for watching television oh, and the tax for failing to exercise properly please eat gallons on high sugar low fat frozen yogurt, it's real good for you |
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whatever, it's a mötorhead song. and i'm already on record as being for that. feeding the rich to the poor. |
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The point of my tale: Good health comes from Fruits & veggies beets on your hamburgers lots of water Xtasy A proximity to kangaroos By the way, Australians get really angry if you make sex jokes about kangaroos. I mean it. |
apparently kangaroos produce no methane on the same diet that sheep and cows produce massive methane. sheep and cows produce 33% of australia's "greenhouse" gasses. they think they can figure out the bacteria in the kanagroo stomach that is so efficient and populate cow stomachs with it. sounds good to me. probably wouldn't work here, though. |
I don't care who did the song originally. How many damn bands today actually play what they wrote, 100% of the time, as opposed to re-vamping previoulsy released songs? |
I will never forget the time I was driving from KC to my grandfolk's house out in Ft Scott, KS for thanksgiving. I passed by this pig farm that just smelled awful. Then I noticed every house past his had a sign out front, posted in the yard. some of them said "Welcome to Pig Country", or "No Pig Farms" and, the best yet, a few had a sign that said "Die Pig Farmer!" There was one that said that, but you had to see it. It was made out of wood that looked like it was never treated and was rained on for years, then, someone took a wide paint brush, the ones with bristles, and painted in dark red, "Move or Die, Piggy"..... |
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i once saw an english short film called "eat the rich". as far as i can remember, some guys started killing off ministers in the house of lords and feeding them to unsuspecting people at a restaurant they opened up. using the motorhead version of the song as the theme. i just think that if lemmy kilminster says he's going to eat the rich, i'm inclined to believe him. i think that bull moose jackson had a big ten inch, but steven tyler didn't. but i do like their version of tiny bradshaw's "train kept a-rollin'." |
Iggy's 'I wanna be your dog'. Someone in the band had a 5 foot strap of sleigh bells that worked perfect and the other was the Make-Up's "Do You Like Gospel Music". Both we're fun and totally done out of respect. |
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Instead of giving the breaders of this world a tax credit for each of their offspring and having exhorbitant taxes on cigaretts and liquor let's reverse the process. Free cigaretts and booze to all and tax the breaders a thousand bucks a head to educate their little rug rats. |