And have fun doing it when I'm sitting on your skinny $ss...
There’s a story in a sci fi anthology I read about food police in the future. And I believe one of the contraband addressed was a hamburger.
That’s easy. Just weigh the Obama-voters and onetime tax tem per pound, Or ton.
Wow I swear to God ideas like these make me feel like I’m in Stephen Kings short story: Quitters Inc.
I have a NATURAL right to eat what I want...without government interference or penalty.
Cutting the size of government would eliminate the need for additional taxes/ money. Thus, you wouldn’t have to use this as an excuse as justification to raise taxes. You think they’d eliminate the tax once everyone is “thin”?? LOL! This is what this is all about—an excuse to lay on extra layers of tax revenues using “weight” as an excuse. Everything they do is based on some “excuse”. These gov’t people are con-artists.
LOL! No effect on honest American businesses there right?
Lets just tax fast food until there is no fast food...
Well, if they will list the names of the folks saved each year, I'm in.
A ‘Fat Tax’ could curb the nation’s obesity problem about as well as “The War on Poverty” defeated poverty.
More tax under the guise of good intentions paid for by those who are least likely able to afford it. Tax the rich my a$$.
WOW the Holiday Inn must be making a load of money from these junk scientists
WOW the Holiday Inn must be making a load of money from these junk scientists
WOW the Holiday Inn must be making a load of money from these junk scientists
How about a “dumbass” tax on congress?
I’m 5’7” and weigh 118 lbs. One of the reasons I’m able to weigh this MUCH, is my affinity for high calorie, high fat foods. Did you ever notice that the obese among us only drink DIET drinks and other such Lo-Cal foods?
For me, gotta have MEAT. And more MEAT. Also, stay MOVING.
Greasy Hamburgers?
Now, you’re makin’ me HONGRY...
Mike
Of course... increasing numbers of people are more than happy to have Daddy Government guiding every aspect of their lives.
“I’d pay 20 percent. It’s worth it,” one woman said. “I would eat a lot more healthy just to save more money.”
...this same idiot is saying, “hey, if paying 20% more doesn’t stop me, you can beat me”.
Well, that's the kind of study I detest: studies like that go into great care to show correlations without ever establishing causation, and they run with it. Sorry, but showing a correlation between higher cigarette taxes and decreased smoking shows nothing: there has been a lot of effort to get people to quit smoking, from commercials telling how bad it is, to limits on places where people can light up. To say that the decrease is because of "smoking taxes" and then to apply the same thinking to obesity is just plain irresponsible.
What about the increasingly sedentary lifestyle? What about the "food pyramid" that recommends so many servings of so many foods that trying to follow it could easily make someone fat? What about the nanny statism that drives people to do just the opposite of what the nanny statists want, just out of rebellion against those who would control lives?
It's pretty much a lie that "unhealthy" foods are cheaper than "healthy" foods. It is actually cheaper to buy the ingredients and make meals from scratch. But it's time-consuming. Food being convenient is probably a big factor in obesity.
I doubt this Gov’t “think tank” has bothered to see what percentage of the morbidly obese population is currently on Food Stamps. People on Welfare are typically the heaviest group out there. They have no need to work - for everything is provided to them for ‘free’; and they have better medical coverage than those “fools” like us who work for a living.