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UN makes a subtle spelling error in Translation of Steve Forbesâ Tax Plan
EFL - Snarky Opinion Piece that contains ideas that border on freedom. Trolls with blood-pressure problems should beware. Fred remove if you desire as article is not strictly WOT. More of a WOK War on Fleptocracy piece.Every day on Planet Earth, 25,000 people die of starvation. Given this startling reality, one might be forgiven for wondering why the most controversial issue on the agenda of last weekâs World Health Organization meeting was the size of our love handles. Yet the venerable global health body practically begged for this fight. WHOâs anti-obesity strategy includes a call for "fat taxes" on hot dogs, candy, and the like. The Bush Administration won the right to amend WHOâs plan after charging that it neglects "the notion of personal responsibility." Predictably, defenders of the fat tax cried foul. Most notably, the self-described "food police" at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) accused the Administration of "sabotage." They consulted on WHOâs plan, and the fat tax is the crown jewel of their anti-obesity policy. "We could envision taxes on butter, potato chips, whole milk, cheeses, [and] meat," says CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson. CSPIâs food scolds didnât respond to the Administrationâs "personal responsibility" charge -- and for good reason. They genuinely donât believe average people are capable of making their own food decisions. CSPIâs Margo Wootan recently declared: "We have got to move beyond personal responsibility." Twinkie-tax inventor (and CSPI scientific advisory board member) Kelly "Big Brother" Brownell also wants to "get away from these arguments about personal responsibility." One recent poll gave it an eight percent approval rating, which puts its popularity somewhere between a root canal and Dennis Kucinich. -snip- Translation - WHO and UN are shaking down us fat guys at the expense of poor Cuba sugar farmers. Pass me a salad. Posted by: Super Hose 2004-01-30 |
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