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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Junk food tax as a cure for obesity ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree, mostly.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was with you right until you mentioned food stamps.  If you had not heard, the food stamp program has been rolled into the EBT debit card program years ago.In 2011 almost $1 billion in EBT funds were used in casinos across the nation.  Almost half a billion in the California EBT program alone.Sorry if this sounds politically incorrect, but if they can afford to use their EBT cards to take out cash in a casino ATM, they can afford to eat better.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[food taxes are wrongful thinking]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Taxing junk food may be a quick and crowd pleasing way to deal with the problem of obesity, but from where I sit, the problem is caused by two main issues:  the reduction and elimination of Physical Education from many elementary schools across the country, along with the lack of summer activity programs for children; and the fact that for many people on Food Stamps, it is cheaper to eat poorly than to eat healthier food.  If all the health conscious food do-gooders could just live on a monthly budget of about $200 a month for a family of three, depending on your monthly income, and tell me how to do it without eating a lot of boxed foods, let them do it!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[briley1710]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Actually]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[most people prefer to be uninformed, because information leads to thinking, and thinking is hard work for most people. Even more so on an empty stomach.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dukhalion]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:38:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's already being done]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are places where the poor and unemployed can get foodingredient packages that contain flour, sugar, bread etc. These packages are decided upon by various organizations, but they all follow government guidelines. And surprise, surprise, the guideline in question has nothing to do with health, only cost.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dukhalion]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:32:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Exactly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And that's EXACTLY the reason newspapers are going down the drain (like the Denver Post).  All pap, all progressive line, no &quot;who, what, when, where and why&quot;.  It's not the internet causing it - I'd much rather sit with a newspaper and a cup of coffee - I'd even pay for it, but when everything is either society pap or non-factual, I'm not going to do it.  Evidently a lot of others feel the same way - no one believes it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GregGold]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Stupidity run amok....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Perfectly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GregGold]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:46:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Resistance in Health]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wanted to let the author and other readers know that in the past few years, as political organizations challenging the many aspects of discrimination against the adipose began attracting a few members of the medical, fitness and other health professions, as well as sociologists and cultural anthropologists, these began forming a faction to promote a dissident paradigm called Health At Every Size. A researcher at U.C. Davis, Linda Bacon, wrote a book by this name. I hope you'll check her web site out as well as the Association for Size Diversity and Health.More recently, on KPFA, after one guest spoke of his promotion of a soda tax in Richmond, CA (which would tax sweetened sodas a penny an ounce but not tea, coffee, dairy, medical, pediatric, or, hilariously enough, sweetened drinks &quot;for weight reduction&quot;), another guest, who authored a book called &quot;Your Brain On Nature&quot;, mentioned as one of his points that poor people with access to open natural spaces have almost as much longevity as rich people. He did not say whether this applied equally to fat poor people as to thin poor people, but what if the ability to see, hear, and feel something truly naturally pleasant once in a while (something that some seem hell-bent on denying fat people) is a far more important thing for health than body size?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elfcat]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 21:07:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exactly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The drug lords, corporations, media, etc. are financing (nicer term than bribing, right?) our elected 'representatives' to keep the population distracted and uninformed about what's really happening.  Honestly, they could probably tell the truth at this point and it wouldn't make much difference, most of us have become accustomed to not believing what we hear on the news anyway.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dark Force]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:57:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stupidity run amok...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That pretty much describes our government, doesn't it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dark Force]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:47:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Politician substitution]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When did being fat become criminalized?  Why is this being pushed in a time where there are gangs, Mexican drug lords are trying to send violence into the US, the economy is still recovering, etc?  You get Americans focused on a side issue and maybe they won't look at the big picture.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[metaphysician]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:59:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The experts cannot explain it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yea the simple mined model is not working. A increase in price can create an increase in demand not an intuitive concept for those who have had economics and in any case even if demand is down the result assumed is not delivered! The problem root cause is unknown the stupidity here is the assumption of the solution (oh its so simple mentality).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Altotus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:12:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tax Tax Tax Jokers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is something fundamentally wrong here a food tax is not moral. Proper health is hampered by excessive cost not helped. The Junk is not food its the additives and processing that destroys food value. Excessive insane cost to add to hunger? Evil suggestion actually evil.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Altotus]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:49:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[They could consider dumping some of the subsidies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that make junk food cheaper to produce. Then maybe they could reduce taxes and spending instead of adding to it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sullivanjc]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:47:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[junk food tax]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[if nothing else, the whole idea is just stupidity run amuck]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[erglazier]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:16:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[eating habits]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I doubt if the eating habits will stick with them for the rest of their lives, tastes do change.  It all comes down to self discipline, doesn't it?  This is just another way of raising funds for government programs!  We don't need more taxes, we need these  &quot;experts&quot; to go away and study something more important, such as why the government spends way more than they take in (maybe too many studies paid for by government?), and why there are tax cheats and how to catch them, or people renouncing thier citizenship to avoid taxes...)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dhays]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 06:46:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And it does not work.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Massachusetts has seen a tidal wave of such taxes over the past 5 years, yet obesity among every target group has continued to climb.I agree with others here that it all starts with parenting.Science has proven that rarely is being obese genetic.  But there is an overwhelming amount of research pointing to poor education and poor parenting being at the heart of the obesity epidemic.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:08:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Junk Food]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not when Kraft mac n cheese is still 49 cents a metric ton and organic celery is $8.00!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[LenzE]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:54:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Junk food tax!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A junk food tax is just another tax.  Just another way for the government to get more money to waste on ridiculous programs.  This would work no better than the additional taxes on cigarettes.  People still smoke.  People will find a cheaper place to buy their junk food.  It won't stop them from consuming it.  Another stupid idea from unrealistic people.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tekwar007]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:37:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Once again the government is trying to control our freedom of choice]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How far will they go to control the citizens into behaviors they deem 'correct'? We might as well let the government control our food sources and provide us the food they think we should eat. We could just drive up to the government run grocery store and they'd have our groceries already picked out for us (why let us choose?). Yeah, sounds extreme but it sure seem like they want to control what we eat. Find a different way.Also, what about us that are not obese or overweight, do we get a tax exception? I'm 37, 6' 2&quot; 165 lbs. and I can eat anything I want and won't gain any weight. Why should I pay an 'obese tax'?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[trx_1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 08:17:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It starts with the parents]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree completely with this post.  For years my wife's side of the family meets up at a local fast food joint every week for lunch.  Why?  Well, they said it's because the kids can play in the attached play gym.  Hmmm.  I wonder what the parents are teaching their kids?  Do you think the kids are learning to associate burgers fries and soft drinks, which by most measures are horrible for them, with happiness and memories of playing in a cool indoor playhouse?  Those clever fast food companies have figured out a long time ago that if you can hook them early, they are customers for life.  I made my argument years ago to one of the adults and it was as if I was looking at her with two heads.  She didn't even seem to comprehend the possibility that these kids could be establishing patterns of eating that would stick with them the rest of their lives.  Multiply that one family by millions of others and there you have a recipe for a health care and financial disaster which is being played out in the U.S. like a slow motion movie.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wally_altoona]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:57:45 -0700</pubDate>
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