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