Should Fat People Be Taxed More?

Great point. ETOH is the biggest and the most dangerous drug out there. They should legalize THC and should heavily regulate ETOH. The cost of alcohol on health care is astronomical; major complications, numerous days of hospitalization followed by many procedures, liver transplant and so forth.

Being overweight does not mean sick or unhealthy. There are some ppl who are big bones or who carry more weights but that does not necessairly mean they are unhealthy. If you screen them some of them have low cholestrol and nml blood sugar than other skinny individuals.

 

This is a great post Jase. You're right that a fat tax won't solve the obesity problem but my experience has been that incentives and education won't solve it either.

People just don't like to eat healthy, cut back the shear volume of calories they consume, reduce alcohol intake or stop smoking... Until it's too late and they have developed diabetes, heart failure, COPD, cirrhosis, cancer. Even then they are still lighting up that smoke, frying that bacon and topping it off with a warm Krispy Kreme donut and downing a pint of rum after dinner.

99% of the people that I see that have lost weight, have cancer. Only 1% have burned it off, eaten healthy and made the right decisions regarding their health. Sad but true, we are a lazy bunch of mofos and no amount of education will change that.

Every patient that leaves the hospital with a lifestyle disease such as diabetes, liver cirrhosis, COPD etc is educated to the max by brilliant, well-educated medical teams, yet how many of those same patients return with the exact same complaints having made ZERO healthy changes in their lives? Nearly all of them.

Taxing the bad foods is not a bad idea, taxing more cigarettes is a great idea, more booze tax is a good idea too... Money makes the world go round baby. Maybe some of that tax could subsidize organic farmers, people that supply us with healthy options.... I don't know, it's just a thought.

 

Nah, I wouldn't have started a thread that's based on this topic. With regards to the topic, I don't have an opinion, so I'd just say "N/A". However, the Bush tax cuts need to expire, so I would say that if a person is fat, but is part of the top 10% or 1% in America, then yes, that particular person needs to be taxed more because it's the correct thing to do from a political perspective. So this topic is partially right. If a person is obese and has immense wealth, then this topic applies.