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I went back to school, after earing 2 degrees from Lewis & Clark College in 2006, simply because I got tired of working in jobs that I felt over-qualified for (ex. office assistant).  It seems that, in this generation, everyone has a bachelor's degree.  A generation ago, bachelor degrees were hard to come by, so the market for jobs may not have been as competetive for new graduates.  In my experience, you can't get a respectable job with a respectable salary with simply a bachelor's degree.  A career requires a master's degree or better.  Now I am working towards a masters in Speech Language Pathology.

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Has anyone ever considered a "fat tax"? Historically, if you want to deter a certain behavior, tax it. Studies show that alcohol consumption (and specifically binge drinking) was reduced when alcohol carried a tax. It seems to me that one reason why it is easy to gain weight is because fatty foods and high carb foods are cheap. In fact, in some supermarkets, veggies cost MORE than potato chips. Why not tax certain foods that contain more than a certain number of fat grams (some fat is indeed necessary). Furthermore, why not SUPPLEMENT the healthy foods, such as produce, with the money earned from the tax?! In a low socioeconomic family with a fixed income, what might they be motivated (and able) to buy then? How the world would change if a Big Mac cost $10.00 and an apple cost 15 cents!

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