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The World's First Fat Tax... Denmark levies it!

By American in Japan   Follow   Sun, 2 Oct 2011, 12:28am   1,833 views   11 comments
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It isn't actually a tax on how fat people are, but on the fat in food... Read carefully (I know someone will misunderstand)

http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/denmark-levies-worlds-first-fat-tax

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1. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,516 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

   1   3:04pm Mon 3 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   Cook County resident says "The right-wing government that decided on the tax was superceded by a centre-left administration in elections last month. " Spiteful Right Wingers. Live free or diet! I don't know much about Denmark's politics, but generally right-wingers in Europe would be called moderates or RINOs in the US.

2. Cook County resident Follow Befriend 24 threads 253 comments

   2   9:28am Tue 4 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   leoj707 says I don't know much about Denmark's politics, but generally right-wingers in Europe would be called moderates or RINOs in the US. Most of what I know about Denmark's politics came from that story and that story didn't even name the two parties -- just "right wing" and "centre-left". But it sure looks like the losers couldn't just STFU and instead decided to throw a stinkbomb into the winner's new term. Or, to quote one political concession speech: The people have spoken -- the bastards!

3. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 203 threads 4,410 comments Davis, CA

   3   12:22pm Tue 4 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   US Governors disapprove of your foreign shenanigans

4. thomas.wong1986 Follow Befriend 16 threads 4,426 comments

   4   1:57pm Wed 5 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Flat Tax is very widely common with Eastern European nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax#Countries_that_have_flat_tax_systems So Denmark isnt the first...

5. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

   5   9:29pm Wed 5 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   leoj707 says I don't know much about Denmark's politics, but generally right-wingers in Europe would be called moderates or RINOs in the US. No. Right-wingers in continental Europe are often big government fascists. The left-wingers in Europe and the US are utopians whose policies are unworkable and eventually get pushed aside by fascists in their own ranks after attaining power. What's called "right-wing" in the US are composed of two very different camps: (1) the big government fascists just like in Europe (2) those who object to big government; what used to be called classical liberals and voted with the Left before the FDR administration copying Italian Fascist policies.

6. Cook County resident Follow Befriend 24 threads 253 comments

   6   7:25am Sun 2 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   The article could have said The World's First Fat Tax... Right Wingers levy it! "The new tax, designed by Denmark’s outgoing government ..." "The right-wing government that decided on the tax was superceded by a centre-left administration in elections last month. " Spiteful Right Wingers. Live free or diet!

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   7   2:36pm Wed 5 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   thomas.wong1986 says Flat Tax is very widely common with Eastern European nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax#Countries_that_have_flat_tax_systems So Denmark isnt the first... FAT tax. Not FLAT tax.

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   8   11:25pm Thu 6 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Protected   Read somewhere that beverages are now a much higher source of daily calorie intake than they were in previous times. Those calories are almost wholly from sugar/HFCS, not fats.

9. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 414 threads 4,133 comments Baltimore, MD

   9   11:29am Thu 20 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Obligatory:

10. Nomograph Follow Befriend (1) 104 threads 2,851 comments

    10   8:46am Sat 22 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   There was once a cat who looked very much like that. A cat with a little black mustache. A cat who promised great change to a downtrodden nation. That cat was Adolph Hitler.

11. errc Follow Befriend (7) 29 threads 1,214 comments 31 male Premium

    11   6:27am Thu 6 Oct 2011   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   Protected   Is the claim behind this concept, better health for their population? Because as we all know, fats are not only good for you but essential food for the brain. If a government were to levy a tax on a consumable in the name of "helping" the populace, shouldnt they ban sugar, or at least lay heavy taxes on all sugars?