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Let's Fine the Fatties
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![]() We'll just tax everything we like so high we can no longer afford to live, that'll show em'.
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This type of thing should really be tied to an annual health assessment. If you want to smoke and eat a pound of sugar everyday you're free to. You're just going to pay higher premiums. The current group health set up causes the one's with great health to pay more for the one's that make poor choices. |
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How the hell did you know I named my gigantic mini-me Francis?
You obviously don't know Francis too well if you're asking him to "lighten up". That's only possible post-orgasm....anything before that is....well.....imagine making Bill Bixby VERY angry.
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Only about half of us pay taxes anymore, and I'm betting that fat people are over represented in the doesn't-pay half, so a fat tax wouldn't be effective.
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Exactly. The food stamp pigs would keep being food stamp pigs on our dime.
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Totally not the same thing. One set of folks are smart about their health and deserve a break on health care. The others, not so much.
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I'm not really sure if its the fatties costing others money. Remember the 750 billion dollars wasted yearly by insurance companies through mark-ups, fraud and other deceivable paper work?
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I wish I still had a link but I read an article a while back that made a compelling case that people that do unhealthy things like smoke or overeat actually cost less in terms of health care in the long run because they tend to die much younger. If a fatty keels over at 45 from a heart attack they don't take as much care as someone that gets into their 70's - 80's and starts having frequent problems, needs joint replacements and/or gets some long, lingering disease.
I don't know how true that is but it's interesting to think about. Also, iirc, the author lumped in some other dangerous actions like driving with no seatbelt or helmet, which may have skewed the curve since they tend to go suddenly. |
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