"Next, they'll be putting a parking meter on my couch."
Hey! Since we're defending smokers and bar businesses and Wal-Mart, let's defend the "obesogenic food environment" while we're at it too, LOL!
You know, I probably haven't purchased that junk food in a grocery store in a decade.
Obesity=lack of self control and discipline for 99.8% of the population.
We should have a special tax on newspapers and magazines that publish stupid Leftwing propaganda. It's hurting our society. Let's do it for the children!
liberal view of anything............tax it
How about a special tax on people who engage in unprotected sex? They sure cost society!
Man, you'd think taxes were the cure all for every ill in society since that's the govt answer to every health problem.
So my question is, when can we expect the tax on the gay lifestyle to cover the cost to society of AIDS? Waiting.
A Special Tax on Academia Needed in Fight Against Legalized Prohabition (American Citizen)
More of the mentality of using taxes as punishment... which we on the Right have claimed for years -- at least it's becoming overt.
I have a better idea: DON'T EAT SO MUCH!
We've done it with tobacco. We can do it with junk foods and low nutrition foods,"
So then who determines what is non-junk food and food that is high in nutrition? This is government gone insane!
We should put a special 75% tax on left-wingers.
"And the corporations that are promoting these products are extremely powerful in the food system."
Oh-h-h. The System. That's a nice trick, tyring to come off anti-establishment. This anti-fat food movement is driven by the elites, nothing more. What a phoney way of appealing to the yokels.
If these people want us to lose weight, through healthier eating, I suggest forcing women to stay at home. Back when most homes had two parent families and a stay at home wife, they family's diet could be controlled by her.
Now that we are entering the brave new world, we are much more on our own, dietarity speaking. Thank goodness big brother is there to step in and tell us how to eat properly.
Media loves this. 90% of the ad space on Canadian television is used for promoting some government agenda, be it anti smoking, eating, driving habits, social issues, etc. All paid for by the taxpayers.
What's next? Suing grocers for selling high-fat high-sugar foods? Makes about as much sense as suing a bartender because a customer got drunk. Zip.
Geesh!
Or you don't eat tasty and satiating foods?
We need a punitive tax on Piled High and Deeper types that attempt to "fix" things that people don't want or need "fixed".
Apparently there are relatively high return on investment with the "junk food" products, as compared to more nutritionally complete foods. Sugar and most fats are comparatively lower in cost per calorie than proteins or most complex carbohydrates.
"Destroy all sugar mills!"
Ah, but the growing proportion of sweetners is being shifted to corn syrup, also as a cost measure. Sugar, either beet or cane, is too expensive to use in many applications.
It is purely a profit margin thing.
FMCDH(BITS)
That's the beauty of the Socialist control system.
Step 1: Some people can't afford the medical help they need. We need to provide universal healthcare!
Step 2: Hey, now that everyone's covered by universal heathcare, we all pay everyone's insurance. Since everyone's health affects the bottom line of the government budget, we now have to control your choices because they cost the government money.
Step 3: You are now property of the state, and the state can dictate what you do with your body since it costs society money. (whatever happened to pro-choice?)
Sadly, most folks don't take this deal with the devil in consideration when they clamor for "universal healthcare". How does it feel to be no better than cattle now?