Denmark adopts world's first-ever 'fat tax'

Denmark adopts world's first-ever 'fat tax' - Everydaymoney.ca is a daily business blog published by MSN Money:

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In this space, we’ve been tracking the idea of the so-called fat tax for years.

Of course, the initiative has been discussed in the public sphere long before Everydaymoney.ca, but it was first mentioned to much buzz here in October of 2009, when some 250 commenters chimed in that the suggested tax was either the best or worst cost-cutting proposal they’d heard.

Then, in March of 2010, we rehashed the topic with the soda tax, which was then being tossed around the New York state legislature. That followed by a news story in May of 2011 – this time, an Illinois Republican senator said, “Scrap the fat tax; tax the parents of obese kids, instead.”