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“Very interesting but stupid”. I take you feel that people that jog should also pay additional taxes since in later life they end up having get their knee joints replaced. And what of the homosexual crowd who feel it is normal to have a mans penis thrust up the anal aperture? Now there is normal behavior. And while you are at it lets tax office workers since they sit on the asses all day and get hardly no activity unless they belong to a gym. Oh but the again there is that jogging tax. Let's tax black people too since they get sickle cell. Come on grow up.

Plain and simple one can not tax people for being over weight. Dumbest idea i have heard of in a very long time. And in closing lets tax shinny people too since the ones i see constantly have colds, running noses, and a variety of maladies that never seem to go away.

I have a right to smoke and drink myself to death. I don't have a right to expect you to pay for it. My point is that in a mandatory health care system, which we now have (or, will have in 2014), incentive and disincentive has been taken out of the system.

The health care industry should work like the free market. A teenage driver pays many times more in car insurance premiums than a 40 or 50 year old mother because he is more likely to get in accidents. No one argues this is unfair; why should the responsible subsidize the irresponsible any more than is absolutely necessary for society to function?

With mandatory health care and ever-increasing medical entitlements, my bad choices now get added to the national debt. The free market has been taken completely out of the equation. Short of repealing these entitlements (which I don't see Congress *ever* having the political will to do because they are cowards), the only way to keep from destroying the currency and bankrupting the nation is to mimic the free market by creating a system where everyone has to effectively pay for his or her choices.

If I cost the "system" 3x as much as average (which is really you, your family, and your children because there is no "system", only future taxes), I should have to pay for it out of my own pocket. To expect you to cover it is socialism. That is the definition of the word. Unless entitlement spending is repealed, the only way to do that is to charge on a per-person basis for services used. It is an imperfect solution but better than the alternative of printing money until it is worthless. (If you can figure out how to repeal the entitlements, then all of this is a moot point.)