Would you OK an diet-related morbid obesity tax and why?
I’m not thinking about those people who are obese because of a pre-existing condition like diabetes or a side effect of a medicine.But consider that most obese people are at a much higher risk of getting sick, while taxpayers-based health insurance like Medicaid must pay for their problems. So if you have a person who eats fast food junk everyday and weighs 300 pounds, should they pay some additional tax and why?
There is a sugar tax in Norway (where I live), so that all junk food with added processed sugar costs a lot more than healthy food. While I don’t support government control of what you eat, it does cut down on the number of obese people. But healthcare in general is nationalised here, so everyone pays for everyone. If you tax obese people specifically, you have to tax smokers, drinkers, fast drivers, people that have unprotected sex, extreme sports, and workaholics.