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Former Obama Adviser: We Should Tax Fat People By Body Weight
Daily Caller ^ | 9:35 AM 02/03/2015 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 02/04/2015 3:04:01 PM PST by Olog-hai

Jonathan Gruber, long credited as the architect of Obamacare, once discussed the necessity of taxing fat people by body weight in order to fight obesity.

“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,” Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010, just months after helping design Obamacare with the president in the Oval Office and during the period in which he was under contract as an Obama administration consultant. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; bodyweight; deathpanels; fattax; jonathangruber; obamacare; zerocare
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To: a fool in paradise

WELL MICHAEL MOORE...may have to become an expatriate if this were to happen.

Oprah......most definately...

perhaps this might explain why Revrunt Sharpton has slimmed down so...MUCH??


21 posted on 02/04/2015 3:20:53 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai

They do it to smokers...


22 posted on 02/04/2015 3:22:35 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Olog-hai

Just taxing Michael Moore could balance the budget.


23 posted on 02/04/2015 3:24:43 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Irenic

And that induced cigarette smuggling.


24 posted on 02/04/2015 3:24:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I have a better idea-repeal the 16th Amendment. Politicians can no longer be trusted with the power to tax.


25 posted on 02/04/2015 3:25:27 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Politicians ought not be allowed to stand for office, period. That privilege ought to be for statesmen alone.


26 posted on 02/04/2015 3:26:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,” Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010 . . . "

This is the kind of statement, if it came from a Republican advisor, would be mocked by the media as a sign of Republican craziness. But now I'm no longer sure whether it's more a case of the MSM covering up Democratic stupidity, or just failing to recognize it as stupidity because they agree with it.
27 posted on 02/04/2015 3:28:31 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Olog-hai

I never smuggled any. I sure would have liked the cheaper price.

I’m just sick of the vindictive taxing. But, if they do it to one—they should do it to all. I’m all for NONE. Same with a dog license— license for other all pet owners or none.


28 posted on 02/04/2015 3:30:49 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Irenic

They start with doing it to one as a stepping stone for doing it to all.


29 posted on 02/04/2015 3:32:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The obesity pandemic of the last 40 years is DIRECT result of government policy.

The fraudulent science of Ancel Keys lead directly to the McGovern Committee causing the USDA to formulate a low-fat low-cholesterol diet that unsurprisingly became high carb, and specifically high grain carb due to internal politics and lobbying.

The trend lines for almost all the non-infectious chronic disease took off (esp. T2D), and are still rising, except for a growing number of dissenters who have figured out how to jump off those curves by switching to diets that are more ancestral, usually low carb, high fat, grain free.

The topic of the day on one of the primal sites is how much weight is too much to lose too fast.
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-quickly-can-you-lose-weight/#axzz3Qp1MPndC
Dr. “Wheat Belly” Davis today tells us that he’s been accused of faking the before/after testimonials that spontaneously pour in from people following his approach.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2015/02/joanne-unrecognizable-saying-goodbye-wheat-grains/

Losing weight for most people is easy with simple changes to diet that amount to doing the opposite of what the government recommends. The Obama admin is just as clueless as all the earlier ones, going back to Ike (who was killed by the dietary advice of his doctors). The Obama admin is just a lot more dangerous.


30 posted on 02/04/2015 3:32:33 PM PST by Boundless (Survive Obamacare by not needing it.)
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To: ExCTCitizen
Not me, I'm just overweight because I'm old and I don't feel like dieting any more. Some 50 years ago, I enjoyed being a young cute clothes horse but with gray hair, sags, varicose veins, and wrinkles, nothing looks all that great. So now I enjoy my food and my fat old friends and my fat old family. No diet sodas for me, thank you very much! Putting a tax on my weight is not going to make me diet, it's just going to make me mad. What are they going to do, come to my door with a scale? Well, I have got news for them. I'm not stepping on that scale, and those skinny little vegetarian bureaucrats just don't have the muscle power to force me.
31 posted on 02/04/2015 3:33:16 PM PST by erkelly
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To: Boundless

The Communist Manifesto describes government meddling in food production in its “ten planks of communism”. At the end of WWII, the vast majority of farms were still family farms, what one might term “organic” after the current fashion; and then came the resurgence of Progressivism, which led to today’s bizarre factory farming.


32 posted on 02/04/2015 3:35:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: erkelly

What are they going to do, come to my door with a scale? Well, I have got news for them. I’m not stepping on that scale, and those skinny little vegetarian bureaucrats just don’t have the muscle power to force me.

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No, they are going to access your electronic medical record and tax you through your tax returns.


33 posted on 02/04/2015 3:37:11 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Olog-hai

I think not too, too far in the future the people are going to say enough of this bunk! Not with cute little signs, either.


34 posted on 02/04/2015 3:40:41 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Olog-hai

First they came for the smokers...


35 posted on 02/04/2015 3:50:02 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Olog-hai
Former Obama Adviser: We Should Tax Fat WHITE PRIVILEGED People By Body Weight

Fixed it.

36 posted on 02/04/2015 3:52:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m sure it’s in Obamacare somewhere.


37 posted on 02/04/2015 3:53:07 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Olog-hai

Obese people cause additional health care cost. We should tax and it should increase it based on the percentage over ideal body weight. I shouldn’t have to pay their cost. I shouldn’t have to smell or see their flab in the work place or in public places. Tax it since it costs the rest of us.


38 posted on 02/04/2015 4:16:27 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: wgmalabama

Thanks for chiming in, Mr. Gruber.


39 posted on 02/04/2015 4:19:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: wgmalabama

I shouldn’t have to put the sarcasm tag. I’m a former smoker so the fatties that cheer tobacco taxes need to rot in hell.


40 posted on 02/04/2015 4:19:58 PM PST by wgmalabama
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