Should we slap on a Fat Tax for Obesity just as we have with Tobacco?
Obesity is a killer, causing folks to have diabetes, strokes and heart attacks. Cigarettes also kill, thus we have taxed them to very high prices, thus discouraging folks from smoking. Should we start by having Fat Sections in Restaurants, or perhaps insisting that Fatties gobble their calorie-high foods outside on the curb, 100 feet from the doorway, thus taking them from the sight of slimmer, healthier folks? Should we give obese people the same treatment we have given cigarette smokers, with similar laws for eating fatty foods? Would this cut down on obesity? Would it save lives? Would it relieve the high cost of treating these people for strokes, heart attacks, diabetes and other diseases ? Or is it any of our business what anyone does with his or her life?
Then we need a ’stupid kids drinking tax’ as they kill people and get pregnant with kids that we have to pay for.
And an ‘anorexia tax’ as they have heart attacks and die and use valuable hospital resources.
And a ‘bulimia tax’ as they eat lots of high calorie food s and barf it up and the acid erodes their teeth and the puking and laxatives cause heart disease and they use up valuable hospital resources.
And a druggie tax for the potheads who increase their psychosis and use up valuable resources
And a druggie tax for the coke heads who have heart attacks, or OD.
And a meth tax on all the former methheads who now have health problems.
And a smart Alec tax for people like you who use up hospital resources when someone beats them up for calling other human beings fatties.