Fat people make seats wear out faster, take up more space, and simply use more resources in their arc upon this mortal coil.
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1. On the other hand, fat people die sooner, so they are skipping a few years of resource use. Also, the fat people in my family tend to be workaholics in addition to food-aholics. The tax money they are generating with their high productivity in the workplace may “outweigh” the added health costs, I don’t know.
2. What’s “mortal coil”? Is that a literary analogy?
3. Silly me. At first I thought the theory being discussed was “Pigoutian”, not Pigouvian.
>>Silly me.
You said it.
But you have a very good first point.
So, if they die earlier like smokers, tax ‘em like smokers.
Who complains when smokers get taxed. No one.
So, if it worked for smokers let’s apply the same logic to overeaters. Eat less, pay less taxes. Simple.
>> 2. What’s “mortal coil”? Is that a literary analogy?
Naw, it’s a car part. As in, “I was poking around under the hood with a screwdriver, and I drew an ‘arc upon my mortal coil’ that knocked my butt into the dirt.”
>Pigoutian
That’s a clever turn of phrase.
Perhaps you should send it to PETA, they can add it to their Florida whales and makes a nice pejorative description of anyone entering a Wendy’s or gasp, even worse, sitting in the drive thru, wasting precious hydrocarbons.
You may have started something here.