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[...Health economist Jurgen Wasem called for Germany to tackle the problem of fattening snacks in order to raise money and reduce obesity.
"One should, as with tobacco, tax the purchase of unhealthy consumer goods at a higher rate and partly maintain the health system," Wasem said, according to Germany's English-language newspaper The Local. "That applies to alcohol, chocolate or risky sporting equipment such as hang-gliders."..]
All the German overweight, beer drinking,chocolate eating, hang glider pilots can seek political asylum in the United States(Sylmar).
Doug
Germany weighs tax on alcohol, chocolate, and hang gliding
Moderator: Chip