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		<title>Arguments For and Against Junk Food and Soda Taxes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over junk food taxes is drawing increasing attention from both sides.  Continued debate over of the adverse health impacts of sugary drinks is coupled with heating debate over the propriety of a tax on a dietary pleasure &#8212; a pleasure some believe people have an unassailable right to partake in, but others find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Junk Food Tax: Good for Our Health or Bad for Our Wealth?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month New York Governor David Paterson proposed an obesity tax to be levied on fattening foods.  He characterizes America&#8217;s problem with obesity as a crisis.  Drawing a comparison to cigarettes, he suggests that just as cigarette taxes reduced the number of American&#8217;s consumption of cigarettes, a tax on certain junk foods should reduce the [...]]]></description>
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