Fat Taxes (page18)

No People’s Choice Award For Fast-Food Tax

The Detroit Free Press reported yesterday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has charged more than $210,000 to his city-issued credit cards in less than three years — often…
Posted May 4, 2005 at12:00 am

Slugging CSPI’s Salt Scare

“That bizarre collection of neurotics, nannies, killjoys, hysterics, and scolds better, if misleadingly, known as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has dreamt up yet…
Posted March 28, 2005 at12:00 am

Obesity Legislation: The Whole Enchilada

Every year around this time, state legislators return to work armed with a laundry list of proposals to replace last year’s failed bills. For the bevy of big brother…
Posted January 25, 2005 at12:00 am

A Red Tape Wonderland

Over the years we’ve identified a growing array of groups that attempt to restrict your food and beverage choices to promote their political or financial agendas. These days the anti-free…
Posted January 5, 2005 at12:00 am

Are The Lights On At the CDC?

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blew the lid off one of the nation’s most pressing public health scourges: Christmas lights. While you may think…
Posted December 10, 2004 at12:00 am

Nader’s Band Of Obesity Brothers

Last week professional martyr and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader found himself favored by only the bottom one percent of the electorate. Despite this loss, his ever-multiplying…
Posted November 8, 2004 at12:00 am

Major League Fatsos

The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are fielding teams of fatsos and fatties. According to the government’s flawed definition, nearly every World Series player — 43 out…
Posted October 25, 2004 at12:00 am

Fat-Tax Man Collects Millions From Feds

An obesity researcher who’s pushed for Twinkie taxes, marketing prohibitions, and even zoning laws to restrict where restaurants and convenience stores are located has received a fat check from…
Posted October 19, 2004 at12:00 am

Ten Dumbest Food Cop Ideas

Over the years, the growing cabal of diet dictators have proposed a litany of crazy proposals to tax, legislate, and litigate away many food and beverage choices. What…
Posted September 27, 2004 at12:00 am

Public-Health Zealots Hit Sour Note

The choir of anti-obesity fatheads is reaching a crescendo as a new article in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) describes a purported consensus among public-health busybodies in…
Posted September 3, 2004 at12:00 am