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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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??
They do it to smokers...
Just taxing Michael Moore could balance the budget.
And that induced cigarette smuggling.
I have a better idea-repeal the 16th Amendment. Politicians can no longer be trusted with the power to tax.
Politicians ought not be allowed to stand for office, period. That privilege ought to be for statesmen alone.
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.
They start with doing it to one as a stepping stone for doing it to all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First they came for the smokers...
Fixed it.
I’m sure it’s in Obamacare somewhere.
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.
Thanks for chiming in, Mr. Gruber.
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.
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