light eyed/fair complexion tax?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

i want a tax on fair skinned people who play in the sun and go to the beach...they are a burden on taxpayers and a big medical risk ....they are at greater risk of cancer....TAX THEM!

blue eyed/blonde/fair skin fun-in-the-sun tax...NOW!

beach tax
tropical vacation tax


where do we stop with this bullshit...obese tax?

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[liberalhistorian]

6. You're being sarcastic, right?

PLEASE tell me you're being sarcastic!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. I would make an argument for a different kind of tax

an asshole tax. Many who have posted on these threads should start paying right away. See post #1.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. i've seen and i concur

[elmariachi]

8. Well..

I keep hearing schools have been cutting out phys ed as part of their curriculum. That doesn't help. Schools sell fatty foods as a part of a diet. That doesn't help either.

Phys ed should be mandatory in schools, all the way through highschool.

There has to be a way to compel food distributors to offer healthier choices at better prices, and to change the market by offering healthy foods that are easy to obtain/prepare as fast foods and other unhealthy choices.

The hardest part of losing weight, for me, is to eat healthy. I'm a single guy. I'm too lazy to cook, my healthy meals consist of lean cuisine or other such frozen dinners. I've kept thinking time and time again that if a fast food company can offer a menu that is nearly full featured in healthy items that they'd make a killing. People WANT to eat healthy, its just too inconvenient.

I think telling people its perfectly normal to be fat is almost as ignorant as my statement about people shoveling big macs into their mouths. Of course there are people who are overweight because of glandular problems or medication or perhaps the few where genetics is a cause, but that should be a small portion of people- not the staggering number of overweight people we have in the United States.

Face it, people aren't eating right and overall we live a sedentary lifestly. That adds up in gaining weight. How can it be normal to be obese when you go to European or Asian countries and you hardly see as many overweight people as you do here? Its the American lifestyle that makes us huge, its not our genes. Its not natural.

There are always going to be people who weigh a little more than average, that is a given. What isn't normal is the amount of people we have in this country that are obese.

Obesity does take its toll on our health. How about instead of making a fat tax, we go ahead and raise insurance rates for obese people? Its ok to raise the rates of a younger driver, because they tend to be more at risk for an accident... so why not do the same for obese people?

[southerngirlwriter]

10. Oh, for the love of Almighty God!

RAISE THE INSURANCE RATES. That makes sense. Most of the obese in this country are poor. Make the few of them who can afford health insurance have to pay even more for it. Then what will happen?

UNABLE TO PAY FOR IT, THEY WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE AND END UP HAVING ALL THEIR OBESITY-RELATED HEALTH CARE GO ON MEDICAID, MEDICARE, OR JUST DOWN TO THE LOCAL ER WHERE THEY HAVE TO BE TREATED WHETHER THEY CAN PAY OR NOT!!

Please, God, Jesus, someone, anyone, tell me I did NOT just have to explain that to someone on a DEMOCRAT message board???

[liberalhistorian]

13. I know, it's incredible and

unbelievable, isn't it? Not to mention very discouraging.

[rucky]

4. The treasury would be overflowing n/t

[liberalhistorian]

5. Well, I want a tax on people who

drive too slowly in the left lane of highways, because they cause road rage and expensive accidents.
Then I want a tax on people with back problems, because their inability to work costs taxpayers too much money in lost productivity and medical costs.
And then I want a tax on brown-skinned people and/or people who speak Spanish as a first language, because they're more likely to either be unproductive gang members and/or to cost more in providing translators for basic services like courts, police, public agencies, etc.
THEN I want a tax on people with autistic or learning disabled children because THEIR needs cost school systems and taxpayers billions of dollars every year, and maybe that'll teach them to just keep the kids at home where they belong anyway, or not have the kids in the first place.
THEN I want a tax on lower-income African-American adults, because they're more likely to have high blood pressure leading to heart and kidney disease, or diabetes, or cancer, and are inconsiderate enough to not have the money/insurance for preventive care and to not have the money/insurance to take care of the problems when they occur, thus forcing the already-overburdened taxpayers to pick up the tab.
THEN I want a tax on all single parents (myself excluded, of course), since THEIR children are more likely to have numerous problems requiring too much public money to deal with.
THEN I want a tax on people with IQ's of less than 100, children as well as adults, since their reduced earning capacity causes millions of dollars in lost productivity and government revenue, and they're more likely to be in prison or on welfare.
THEN I want a tax on any elderly person in a nursing home or living on a fixed income, since we, the overburdened taxpayers, have to pick up the tab for their care and needed services.
THEN I want a tax on obnoxious co-workers and people who wear too much perfume/cologne, and people who......oh, hell, just tax everybody for everything and be done with it!

[HILLARY SUPPORTER]

7. Blah

Blah!!

[southerngirlwriter]

9. Who uses the most public money?

Who depends on Medicaid and Medicare and AFDC and food stamps and other forms of welfare?

The poor.

It's obvious. Tax the poor. Make them sell all their shit on ebay and give half the proceeds to the government.

Time for them to pay a little back for all they get from the rest of "us."

This obesity tax thing is so stupid, I thought I'd take it to the next logical level. LOL.

[YNGW]

11. Isn't this obese tax thing...

...just a natural extention of the legislation against the tobacco companies? The word was the tobacco companies willingly sold a product they knew was addictive to some people and would cause cancer. The same logic is applied here, that fast food companies are selling a product which they know that certain elements in the public will become addicted which they know will cause heart disease.

Basically, this is what happenes once you get the ball rolling. Suddenly circumstances are the fault of others and not the individual.

For the record, I am against punishing companies for making products which the consumer might abuse to the point of being unhealthy. If someone wants to smoke or eat themselves to an early grave, that's their business. I just ask that they don't burden me with the bill.

And no, I'm not interested in a lecture of how I'm getting the bill anyway and that's why tobacco and such should be paying up. It's X-mas eve and me, the spouse and the kids have an appointment with Santa Clause.

Happy Holidays!

[liberalhistorian]

12. Well, you may not want a lecture,

but you should, indeed, be smart enough to recognize that you're getting the bill anyway. And wait until they want to tax something that affects YOU. I guarantee you'll be singing a different tune.

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