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.
It’d also take away the subsidies that make fattening food cheaper.
In contrast, this proposal would have the feds continue to subsidize such foods—and then tax it when it’s consumed.
(Kind of like they did with tobacco.)
They have been taxing cigarettes for quite some time. It could be argued (although I have my doubts) that the increased taxes has reduced the rate of smoking. However, government has become addicted to that tax money and is now looking for other things to tax (i.e. fat people) to make up for lost "revenue".
If this tax is put into place, and the rate of obesity drops, watch out. The government will have become fatter on the extra taxes and will need to find some other way to feed itself.
“This is what this is all about—an excuse to lay on extra layers of tax revenues using “weight” as an excuse.”
You’re slightly off. The tax revenue is just a happy coincidence to their real purpose of control.
“These gov’t people are con-artists.”
Spot on.