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Fat? TV Addict? Should You Be Taxed on Your Lifestyle?

7 June 2008

This week, I happened to notice a series of ads running in my local paper (The Philadelphia Inquirer) for Derrie-Air airlines. There were two features that distinguished Derrie-Air from, say, USAirways and United. One was the method of determining fare: The magic comes from our one of a kind “Sliding Scale”—the more you weigh, the [...]

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South Carolina Legislators Endeavor to Make the State Moral

9 April 2008

With apologies to my brother and his family who no doubt voted for some of the representatives in the South Carolina legislature, the state should be embarrassed for its constant attempts to make the state fit someone’s view of morality. Just a few short days after South Carolina passed a law to give married couples [...]

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What’s It Worth to You?

6 June 2007

In response to my post about PETA’s proposed meat tax, Sally over at Living Without Meat had this to say: What she doesn’t share with us is if the tax deal goes through, will she go back to her formerly meat-free diet? That’s right: I used to be a vegetarian. I was meat free from [...]

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