While we're at it, why don't we just tax fat people too?

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07 Mar 2009, 4:15 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

Sounds like a great plan and then eventually have signs in restrooms and restaurants saying.... "We Cater to Thin People Only"...

...and you think you're joking? Take a look at this...
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/200 ... ll-be.html

Fortunately it didn't get passed, as far as I know.

If you take a look at the rest of that blog I linked to, you'l find some very interesting articles. A lot of the information widely touted around about weight and health is at best misleading and at worst, total lies. We're rapidly heading for a civilisation in which it's perceived as OK to hate a particular group to the extent of passing laws that restrict their lives, ostensibly 'for their own good' but actually because of nothing more solid than that they don't look an approved way. Do I really need to point out how dangerous that is?

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07 Mar 2009, 4:22 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

Sounds like a great plan and then eventually have signs in restrooms and restaurants saying.... "We Cater to Thin People Only"...

We don't serve your kind here...

(i think I am going to sig your quote.)

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07 Mar 2009, 7:37 pm

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Why don't we just tax fat people?

Y E S ! ! !

And smokers, too!

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07 Mar 2009, 9:16 pm

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07 Mar 2009, 9:21 pm

Atomsk wrote:

Why don't we just tax fat people? The government sure loves to tax things that are unhealthy for you, such as the 2000% increase in the RYO tobacco taxes starting this April.

According to their logic, taxing unhealthy things will make people stop doing these unhealthy things, so why don't they just follow their own logic and tax all unhealthy things, such as being fat?

So why don't they do this? I'll tell you why. It's because they're all hypocrites.

Non-smoker here by the way.

For those who don't understand sarcasm: I don't actually want to tax fat people, I am against any "sin" taxes.

Simple enough: in the United States, poor people (specifically African Americans) are fatter than everyone else. On the other hand, through my completely anecdotal observations I've noted that the largest concentration of smokers on my college campus is by well to do white English majors.

Oh I can hear the accusations of classism and racism now...

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07 Mar 2009, 11:20 pm

Push for the government to invent a health monitor implant that watches calorie intake and calorie burning and toxicity levels and pH balance, then they can tax you for going over the recommended calorie amount and for failing to burn the required calorie amount and for having to many toxins and for not being balanced. Hoorah!

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08 Mar 2009, 7:07 am

ed wrote:

This is an entry from the blog I kept in 2002:

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Thursday, August 1, 2002 7:28 PM
I thought I was safe from the government when I quit smoking. No, now they're getting ready to go after us overweight people. First will come a hefty tax on fast-food purchases. Then it'll move to the grocery store. I can see it now:
1 pound steak.........$5.00
Fat tax......................10.00
Total........................$15.00

Then they will start issuing summonses for being overweight. Of course there will be a "zero-tolerance" policy towards fatties, with mandatory minimums - say one year per pound overweight. When we get out, we will have to register with the local police as a "food-abuser," and report to our parole officer every week for a weigh-in; if we flunk, it's back to jail!
I can see it now. Fellow fatties, beware!

It still seems appropriate today!

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Fnord wrote:

atomsk wrote:

Why don't we just tax fat people?

Y E S ! ! !

And smokers, too!

are they not taxed in the US? in here, the cost of a packet of Marlboros roughly equals the foreign debt of a small African country already, and it's going to go up soon by another 10%.

I'm so glad I managed to quit :p

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08 Mar 2009, 8:13 pm

Cigs are taxed *quite* heavily here.

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09 Mar 2009, 6:55 am

anna-banana wrote:

nah, taxing the people sounds absurd.

smokers and drinkers do pay a lot of tax that goes towards their future treatment though, I don't see why fat people should pay some extra for eating those highly processed foods :p

but then surely, using the same argument there, fat people should be taxed to pay for their future treatment when they die of a heart attack or turn diabetic?
honestly, the system in every country now is screwy.
Also, you are not considering the fact that some overweight people do eat healthily, but due to a health problem or slow metabolism cannot easily shift it? My step father is one example, he has a thyroid gland problem and his metabolism is so slow he could survive of cabbage and still put on some weight.

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