The fat tax was instead fried by Danish farmers complaining of the high administrative cost of fat-tax compliance, and losing business to foreign competitors who were running away with the bacon and the kringles.

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The real cost to compliance may not be incurred by the four million Americans likely to pay an individual mandate tax.

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