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

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07 Mar 2009, 8:16 am

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.

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07 Mar 2009, 8:47 am

Because food that makes you fat is cheaper than food that keeps you thin.. :wink:

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07 Mar 2009, 8:50 am

MissConstrue wrote:

Because food that makes you fat is cheaper than food that keeps you thin.. :wink:

Thus creating a larger tax base for the "fat" tax.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:15 am

It's only a matter of time before everything that's auxillary that people don't need will become sin-taxable.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:30 am

Averick wrote:

It's only a matter of time before everything that's auxillary that people don't need will become sin-taxable.

As long as we're looking for tax bases why not tax stupid people? That way smart people who write poetry or do abstract mathematics or science would have a huge tax base for support.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:33 am

Great well I'll start a campaign against McDonald's and other fastfood destricts targeted at the young and lazy.

Just Say NO!! !

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07 Mar 2009, 9:36 am

MissConstrue wrote:

Great well I'll start a campaign against McDonald's and other fastfoods marketed at the young and lazy.

Just Say NO!! !

It might even be as successful as the "Just say no" campaign against drugs.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:39 am

taxing unhealhty will cause inflation because that is what is affordible to the poorer people, overly processed hydrogenated foods.

I have a diagram that i am scanning in to my computer of how raising the price of a essential good (such as food or clothes) will result in hyperinflation.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:44 am

ForgottenDarkness wrote:

If they were REALLY poor they couldn't afford enough food to get really fat anyways.

EDIT: I'm not talking about taxing the food, I'm talking about taxing the PEOPLE themselves, who are overweight.

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07 Mar 2009, 9:51 am

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

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07 Mar 2009, 10:23 am

I know this thread is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but it makes me wonder if taxing according to BMI is such a bad idea...considering we might be making an attempt at a government controlled health system.

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07 Mar 2009, 10:29 am

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

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07 Mar 2009, 10:30 am

Not to worry. With the economy going down the toilet soon everybody will be hungry and slim while foodstuffs are turned into gasoline to drive the tanks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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07 Mar 2009, 12:06 pm

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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