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New York guv’s recession prescription: Obesity taxes!
Reason number 99,786 I’m glad I’m not a New Yorker: The Democrat governor is proposing a tax on non-diet sodas — along with a bevy of other tax hikes — to cure the state’s economic ills. [...] Read the rest »
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