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Airline Fat Tax: Fair Or Foul?

Posted 02.09.2012

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Airlines might soon be able to introduce a so-called "fat tax" if the U.K. Court of Appeals has anything to do with it. According to a court ruling...

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Save Lives, Tax Soda

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.18.2012

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Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Wendy Gordon, pioneer in the green consumer movement Forty-five can be a sizeable number. Especially when it's the number of gal...

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Save Lives, Tax Soda

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.12.2012

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Wendy Gordon

Let's make 2012 the year we get smart about taxes, and tax less of those things we want more of, like jobs and income, and more of the things we want less of, like health damaging sugars. You can have your cake, just pay for it.

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A Way-Out for the Super Committee... and the Country

Paul Abrams | Posted 01.08.2012

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Paul Abrams

Each side wants the most it can get, but it must consider that the other side may decide to relinquish some of what it wants to get closer to what it estimates the American people want.

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Danish 'Fat Tax' Aimed At Curbing Unhealthy Eating Habits

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.03.2011

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COPENHAGEN (AP) -- Denmark has imposed a “fat tax” on foods such as butter and oil as a way to curb unhealthy eating habits. The Nordic country...

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Picking Up the Tab for Medical Care: Who Should Pay?

Carole Carson | Posted 07.17.2011

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Carole Carson

Americans must address the question of who will foot the bill for rising medical costs. Even as we complain about mounting healthcare bills, we are reluctant to adopt healthier lifestyle habits to reduce costs.

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Should Parents Be Taxed For Having Obese Children?

Posted 07.12.2011

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An Illinois Senator is backing away from a suggestion he made in committee Tuesday that parents with obese children have their $2,000 standard tax ded...

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Forget a "Fat Tax." Tax the Fat.

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Ridley

With all the talk -- and screaming and gun-toting -- that's going on around the health care reform debate, maybe the answer is orbiting our ever-expanding guts.

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Is It Okay to Fire People Who Smoke or Are Obese?

Tony Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Newman

By firing workers for smoking or being overweight -- and penalizing them when it comes to their health care -- we will be demonizing and marginalizing those to whom we should be reaching out.

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Sale: Exit Row Seats $8.70 per Hour

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blake Fleetwood

The airlines are getting very desperate ... charging more and more for things that used to be free.

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