It’s long past time for the government to step up to the plate to solve this problem. I propose a fat tax of a dollar per pound per day over one’s ideal weight determined by a panel of government “doctors” based on height, gender, and age.
Naturally, such a tax places a disproportionate burden on the poor, so it won’t apply to anyone who lives below the income poverty level, and will be graduated for the middle-class. In other words, this fat tax will hit hardest at fat fat-cats, as it well should.
Why should a tax hit the fat and rich more heavily?