[martin_fierro]

There's a constituency out there that's just DYING to impose a "Fat Tax".

[RolandBurnam]

when did common sense die? How is it they are so dumb they don't know tofu from red meat, but they can still use a telephone and talk to a lawyer.

[reformedliberal]

Also, they could slam the economy and the market by driving Mickey D's into a negative media fest. If it became socially unacceptable, for example, for kids to go to McDonalds, they would suffer, as would the shareholders and their workers and franchise owners. Could take several hundred points off the market as a whole.

Think Microsoft and the rabid anti-MS cult out there. I know those who hate MS will tell me how evil and venal and inept it is (please, spare me and no FReep mail either; I am fully apprised of the myriad reasons for this attitude.) Or, come to think of it, like SUVs or large working dog breeds or smoking.

Or like guns.

We've seen this many times before and slowly, it changes our behavior, like it or not. It is coercive social engineering and the victims even pay for it.

Sorta like terrorism.