Posted on 04/11/2011 11:29:32 AM PDT by neverdem
A fat tax would be DOA. Why? Because women and non-Asian minorities would be disproportionately affected.
End of story.
How about open season on fascists, no bag limit, $10 an ear.
The BMI is a flawed statistic. An individual who is 5’10” must fit within a 30 pound window to be considered ideal weight. This does not account for gender, age, body frame or muscle to fat ratio. The ideal weight for all individuals was decreased by 10 pounds in 1998. They changed the guidelines and inflated the obesity statistics to create a crisis.
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/17/weight.guidelines/
No laws or taxes should be made solely on the BMI.
This is a slippery slope.
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