On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:34:00 -0700 Cheyenne Loon <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> On tonight's CTV News broadcast here in Toronto (canada), they
> reported
> that there is talk of instituting a "fat tax", designed to
> discourage
> people from consuming fatty foods which may be bad for their
> health.
It wont last, they tried that a few years back with the *snack tax* It
failed miserably. It was too difficult to determine what was a snack and
was not.
Trish