I’m a little behind the times on this one, since Governor Manchin has already backed down from his call to charge PEIA insurance members who’re overweight more than others, but I still wanted to say something. I am torn on this. On the one hand, it makes sense to charge those who have (or likely will have) a higher utilization rate more for their health insurance than those who are ...

• UIC has received a $1 million grant to study the viability and effectiveness of a 'fat tax' on junk food. • While efforts to prevent Asian Carp from getting into Lake Michigan appear likely to fail, there's a slim chance the carp won't thrive in the lake's chilly, still waters. • Thanksgiving Day saw lots of restaurant ...

I mean this fat tax might be funny, for a little while, but come on folks. . . And these stupid school zones have got to go. Let’s start the pendulum swinging back the other way. . . I mean the Government is paranoid, some of the ridiculous new proposals coming in – I wanna make that old Golden Word FREEDOM a priority again. It’s silly, Osama isn’t going to fly a plane into ...

... is more politely referred to as obesity. We are an obese nation. We are the fat nation. And it is costing the nation a lot of money. Rising ... deadly and expensive, so we have a grand rationale for taxing them. Fat should be even easier. The fat comes eating too much, it's called gluttony, and ... to be fair, make it progressive fat tax. Rich fat asses should pay more than poor lard butts. ...

... -year period -- 1997 through 2007 -- the researchers will determine if differential tax rates equate to differences in consumption, diet quality and body ... index, or BMI, for children, adolescents and adults... Current fat-tax rates are fairly low, ranging, for example, ... lie two problems. 1. Group punishment. 2. Fat people are neither targeted nor taxed high enough. There is a proper way to do ...

... 1.5 billion per year with the introduction of an ‘unhealthy food tax’ at the beginning of 2010. A new study by the Confederation of Danish Industry’s ... in the entire EU. There are also suggestions to impose a saturated fat tax on butter, margarine, vegetable oil and cheese ... in imposing charges on chocolate and candy. The mooted saturated fat tax is also unique in Europe. Ole Linnet Juel, ...

... in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although ... suspended the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as fat dripped into tubs below. Six members of the gang remain at large, ... 849 billion plan, the Agence France-Presse reports. The tax would only hit elective procedures — it exempts any ...

... latest outrage, that Goldman Sach is looking at buying tax credits from Fannie Mae. The idea here is that Fannie ... losing money, and is federally owned now, so it can't use the tax credits, so it sells them to GS for something like 80¢ on the dollar ... cheaper for the government to simply subsidize that, but instead it offers tax credits so there is no “expenditure” for foes of big government ...

... part of personal finance. To avoid making tax moves that aren’t worth the trouble, there is a simple ... deduct the interest from your payment in 2009. There is a big, fat catch, however. Although you do get to deduct 13 months worth ... involves collecting a lot of receipts and getting a bunch of tax forms just right. In the end, you are the judge of what anything is worth to you. The important ...

Free Market Groups See Soda-Tax Conspiracy - Washington Whispers (usnews.com): "The Illinois Policy Institute concluded that 'taxpayers are ... ;The stimulus-financed study about fat taxes proves that the fat cats in Washington show no restraint when it comes to spending our hard-earned tax dollars. Is there any project that would fail to meet Congress's unbelievably low standards? I doubt ...