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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: nycbull on July 29, 2009, 03:00:58 PM
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http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/29/should-fattening-foods-be-taxed/ (http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/29/should-fattening-foods-be-taxed/)
what about taxing fat skinny people just for exisiting?
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retarded idea since there is no such thing as a fattening food
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retarded idea since there is no such thing as a fattening food
right...foods shouldn't be taxed, fat people should be taxed because they are a fucking drain on society.
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Actually, when families feed their kids nothing but soda, sugary cereal, chips and candy(which most lowlife and ethnic families seem to do), a lot of them end up obese and diabetic. If the great Obama wants to have nationalized healthcare, I'd rather they tax shit food than have to pay even more from my income tax for these losers' medical care.
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Actually, when families feed their kids nothing but soda, sugary cereal, chips and candy(which most lowlife and ethnic families seem to do), a lot of them end up obese and diabetic. If the great Obama wants to have nationalized healthcare, I'd rather they tax shit food than have to pay even more from my income tax for these losers' medical care.
X2 tax Squadfather potato chips, junk food and soda
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right...foods shouldn't be taxed, fat people should be taxed because they are a fucking drain on society.
Their lack of willpower sickens me! >:(
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ALL foods are fattening.
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retarded idea since there is no such thing as a fattening food
thats not realy true is it, unless your one of those a cal is a cal type of people........... taxing junk food would give those fat fuckers somthing to think about
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right...foods shouldn't be taxed, fat people should be taxed because they are a fucking drain on society.
True.
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thats not realy true is it, unless your one of those a cal is a cal type of people........... taxing junk food would give those fat fuckers somthing to think about
He is absolutely right. You can eat junk food without getting fat, just like you can pig out on "healthy, wholesome" food and become obese. It all boils down to how much you eat. Not every person who eats McDs or some other fast food joint automatically becomes obese, nor does everyone who avoids junk automatically stay slim and healthy.
It's an individual's dietary habits and discipline that makes them healthy or obese or whatever.
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This is retarded. If you want to tax something, tax sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and aspartame. Far worst then fat.
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thats not realy true is it, unless your one of those a cal is a cal type of people........... taxing junk food would give those fat fuckers somthing to think about
What about healthy, slim people enjoying "junk" food from time to time?
You can always eat one whopper instead of three.
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What about healthy, slim people enjoying "junk" food from time to time?
You can always eat one whopper instead of three.
qft, taxing the food is idiotic.
For example, if some people are so stupid and eat a whole tub of ice cream, why should the normal family that enjoys a tub of ice cream with 3-4 persons over a few days pay more?
Tax the people for being fat, or make them pay more to health services, that would be better.
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Tax the people for being fat, or make them pay more to health services, that would be better.
currently, fat people do pay more for health services. They get sick more and have more problems. It's funny that people want a free health care system, yet at the same time want to tax fat people.
taxing people will never work, you have to tax the products.
tho it would be nice to tax parents that have fat kids.
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If this should ever come to pass......how long till we start taxing the ugly, the stupid, or taxing those who over breed (so to speak)?
Could you imagine if we taxed the illiterate, most of Getbig would be fucked........
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The senseless thing is paying 5oeuro or so if your luggage bag is 4kg overweight going on a plane and then charging an obese person the same price as yours for the actual plane ticket
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The senseless thing is paying 5oeuro or so if your luggage bag is 4kg overweight going on a plane and then charging an obese person the same price as yours for the actual plane ticket
Good point. That pissed me off when it happened to me.
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This is retarded. If you want to tax something, tax sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and aspartame. Far worst then fat.
Please add smoking and alcohol to that list ;)
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Trying to tax the food would be a logistical nightmare. There is some food that is clearly "junk" in all cases, and some that is clealry healthy in all cases, but probably 2/3 of the food and food products out there falls into neither of the two categries... it all depands on how you use it, in what quantities, in what circumstances, etc. It's really unworkable. just jack up insurance rates then give fit people a "discount" back to less than today's current cost. That way the fatties pay the costs their lack of willpower causes, rather than shifting the cost onto those of us who stay fit.
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i actually think a mandatory fatcentration camp would be great at this point.
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as an outsider i dont know why your nation is so fat... how are the majority of you lot like this?
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Trying to tax the food would be a logistical nightmare. There is some food that is clearly "junk" in all cases, and some that is clealry healthy in all cases, but probably 2/3 of the food and food products out there falls into neither of the two categries... it all depands on how you use it, in what quantities, in what circumstances, etc. It's really unworkable. just jack up insurance rates then give fit people a "discount" back to less than today's current cost. That way the fatties pay the costs their lack of willpower causes, rather than shifting the cost onto those of us who stay fit.
Not a bad idea.
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Actually, when families feed their kids nothing but soda, sugary cereal, chips and candy(which most lowlife and ethnic families seem to do), a lot of them end up obese and diabetic. If the great Obama wants to have nationalized healthcare, I'd rather they tax shit food than have to pay even more from my income tax for these losers' medical care.
don't worry about 'Bama...Chem. generally, nothing will change with healthcare
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right...foods shouldn't be taxed, fat people should be taxed because they are a fucking drain on society.
Yeeehhhhhaaaaa...!
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Please add smoking and alcohol to that list ;)
alcohol and tobacco ARE taxed, dumbass.
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alcohol and tobacco ARE taxed, dumbass.
How's Germany rate on the world wide fat scale?
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alcohol and tobacco ARE taxed, dumbass.
Not enough....by far, and they're DEFINITELY not being taxed for the years of hospital assisted living that they're in for in the future. From cancer to respirators, to all the years that they will not be working, that the rest of us will be fitting the bill for.
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Not enough....by far, and they're DEFINITELY not being taxed for the years of hospital assisted living that they're in for in the future. From cancer to respirators, to all the years that they will not be working, that the rest of us will be fitting the bill for.
You are right, we definitely need to add to the taxes of both. As for the food, again, it is not the food, but an individuals inability to control themselves.
The US is so fat due to its culture of more of everything is better.
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How's Germany rate on the world wide fat scale?
high.
Not enough....by far, and they're DEFINITELY not being taxed for the years of hospital assisted living that they're in for in the future. From cancer to respirators, to all the years that they will not be working, that the rest of us will be fitting the bill for.
x2, they should tax tobacco at least 100%