Let's tax the crap out of everything!

04/27/2011

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In an effort to curb an obesity epidemic that’s eating the country, Canadian researchers suggest a tax be placed on all junk food. Dr. Mark Eisenberg is lead researcher in the junk study and says obesity related deaths and illnesses could be reduced if the government steps in.

Chips, chocolate, cakes, cookies – they want them all taxed. But why stop there?
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Poor kids: The richer the nation the fatter the poor

03/07/2011

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In 1989, the House of Commons made a resolution to achieve the goal of eliminating child poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000.

In 2010, an act to eliminate poverty in Canada was introduced into the House of Commons.

What a difference over two decades can make.

At least one in nine children in this country live in poverty, while one in every four children in First Nations’ grow up in it.

Today, health ministers from across Canada collectively announced that we must wait until November 2011 to find out what they intend to do about childhood obesity. What they fail to note, is that it is one of poverty’s heaviest problems.
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