"As long as I'm exempt!"
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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Careful what you wish for!
With criminals like Obungo and company in charge, I guaran-damn-tee that before long, anyone weighing more than twiggy, of any height and build will be taxed up the wazzooo!!
In other words, everybody.
Note how Gruber bounces between “fat” and “BMI”. Going by the latter, any muscular types would be subject to his “tax”.
I think you worded that exactly backwards. He would have a zero bill.
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How about the First Wookie??
Whut?
I have had a medical condition for about 4 years now which makes me about 11% under my ideal healthy weight.
Do I get a tax credit?
time for some surgery!
Do I get a tax credit?
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You only get to pay taxes...
That's not the way it works now, toots.
Michael Moore ain’t going along with this!
Will Fat Heads be included?
How about Big Ears?
A Wookie Tax?
Lets start taxing dead people more...they are not contributing their fair share
I’m sure Holder’s people would get an exemption.
First we need to start “taxing the hell” out of politicians. All politicians.
Funny how “taxing” as an adjective means “wearying”, “burdensome” and “onerous”.
Remember what happened the last time a politician threatened to punish the populace with scorpions?
“How about the First Wookie??”
Too Big to Tax...
Just skin and bones...well maybe just bones.
How about some fat people just sit on this buffoon.
If some form of national health care is inevitable and never going to go away, I would advocate some form of this tax. My idea would be that everyone reports to the local HS track once a year, and if you can run three miles within 25 minutes, you get free health insurance, the rest pay for theirs. If you do not like the premiums, drop the donut and start training for the next year.
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