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The Fat Tax?
The Fat Tax: A Controversial Tool in War Against Obesity
RedNova - Jan 12 5:22 AMIt’s used as a levy on ‘junk’ foods, and to promote nutrition programs In America’s ongoing battle of the bulge, one strategy to combat the nation’s obesity epidemic has generated more than a decade’s worth of attention and controversy.Popularly known as the “fat tax” or the “Twinkie tax,” the concept first gained widespread attention in 1994 when Yale University psychology professor Kelly D.
