| Sounds like Danish bleu will get more expensive, at least in Denmark. |
The tax basically adjusts food prices to correspond with the percentage of fat in it (or, about $3 for every 2.2 pounds of saturated fat).
Danish politicians say the tax is an attempt to raise falling life expectancies. It's said that death and taxes are inevitable, but I guess Danish liberals think that this new tax can put death off for a few years.
On a Today show segment yesterday, ad executive Donny Deutsch and NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman "literally applauded the move." Star Jones had a good response: "No, you're not helping anybody, not by taxing. That's not the way that you help people." She's right: it's the way you seize more of people's money and liberty while self-righteously claiming to help them.
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