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After some deliberation, I've decided that I'm for a well-conceived Fat Tax. That's the tax that would be on unhealthy foods. If we're going to tax the crap out of cigarettes and achololic beverages, might as well go all-out and tax Pepsi, Big Macs and Baby Ruths. It would especially make sense if we had tax-paid health care. Use the Fat Tax to pay for the health care.
After some deliberation, I've decided that I'm for a well-conceived Fat Tax. That's the tax that would be on unhealthy foods. If we're going to tax the crap out of cigarettes and achololic beverages, might as well go all-out and tax Pepsi, Big Macs and Baby Ruths. It would especially make sense if we had tax-paid health care. Use the Fat Tax to pay for the health care.
LOL..You should see my entrance. We have cases of "junk" for the party tomorrow....
When you put it that way..... we do have extra taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, why not on junk as well?? I'd be willing to hear good arguments for and against and base my final opinion on those.
I'm for "affordable" medical solutions to erase the epidemic of obesity. Instead of performing dangerous, and expensive bariatric surgery which further strains the healthcare system and is inherently unfair to those without insurance, we should just wire fat peoples' jaws shut
Best yet, we wouldn't have to hear them whine about how they really don't eat all that much anyway.
I'm not a fan of sin taxes of any form as the money they garner rarely goes to the 'cause' they are meant to support. But, I would be open to debate if it could be guaranteed that the money would fund health related costs to our government.
After some deliberation, I've decided that I'm for a well-conceived Fat Tax. That's the tax that would be on unhealthy foods. If we're going to tax the crap out of cigarettes and achololic beverages, might as well go all-out and tax Pepsi, Big Macs and Baby Ruths. It would especially make sense if we had tax-paid health care. Use the Fat Tax to pay for the health care.
How about a tax on all of these?
-Skinny tax
-Tall tax
-Short tax
-Ugly tax
-Illegal immigrant tax
-Legal immigrant tax
-A pet tax
-A TV tax (a TV tax like in the UK)
-A radio tax
-An Internet tax (for posting in this forum)
-A child tax
-A gay tax, a straight tax, a porno tax
If we were truly interested in taxing the actions that wind up costing society more down the road there are a lot of other places to look in addition to cigarettes, alcohol and fatty foods.
How about taxing unwed mothers, divorced couples, deadbeat dads, hispanic and African American families? Percentage wise their children are incarcerated at a higher rate than children coming from white married families. Incarceration is very expensive and is a drain on the taxpayer too.
Then we could tax those whose heritage/genetics/weight puts them at a higher risk of getting a particular disease (or isn't that what we were trying to stop by eliminating preexisting conditions in Obamacare?
See, taxing every little thing that could wind up increasing a cost down the road gets a little silly when you figure all the possible things that fit that description.
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After some deliberation, I've decided that I'm for a well-conceived Fat Tax. That's the tax that would be on unhealthy foods. If we're going to tax the crap out of cigarettes and achololic beverages, might as well go all-out and tax Pepsi, Big Macs and Baby Ruths. It would especially make sense if we had tax-paid health care. Use the Fat Tax to pay for the health care.
I think we should only tax the hell out of people proposing taxes on over taxed other people's wallet. Just saying!
If we were truly interested in taxing the actions that wind up costing society more down the road there are a lot of other places to look in addition to cigarettes, alcohol and fatty foods.
How about taxing unwed mothers, divorced couples, deadbeat dads, hispanic and African American families? Percentage wise their children are incarcerated at a higher rate than children coming from white married families. Incarceration is very expensive and is a drain on the taxpayer too.
Then we could tax those whose heritage/genetics/weight puts them at a higher risk of getting a particular disease (or isn't that what we were trying to stop by eliminating preexisting conditions in Obamacare?
See, taxing every little thing that could wind up increasing a cost down the road gets a little silly when you figure all the possible things that fit that description.
If they're already impoverished, it's getting blood from a turnip, ain't it?
Eliminate subsidies to corn and allow it to compete in the open market with sugar. Remove all import quotas on sugar. There's a reason why high fructose corn syrup is so common and sugar is relatively rare...
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