Junk food 'fat tax' may tackle obesity

[Double Barrel]

You're right. I had a brainfart...a result of a socialistic education system, no doubt.

However, my confused history doesn't change my main point. We digress.

 

[luiz]

If people want to eat fat food it's only their business.
They'll be already punished with overweight, there's no need to tax them!

 

[KaNick]

The Government should not be allowed to think for its citizens.

Furthermore this tax will not work if you are talking about stemming obesity. In order for this to have an effect the tax would have to be so high that even casual consumers would no longer purchase fat food... oops I mean fast food(remember obesity is often a result of mental addiction). The tax would have to be so high that the fast food industry would be cripples and the gov. does not want this. So IMO this is simply like any other tax, the government is simply using spin to get public support.

 

[newfangle]

Here's a fresh idea. Let's privitize all medicine, so the government doesn't have to worry about taxing fatties.

Seeing some of the opinions on this board make me want to go purchase an M1 for protection.

 

[HighlandWarrior]

Stupid idea, from stupid politicans.

@speedo, every woman says that.

 

[The Person]

And just as I was assured all stupid things come from America...
(D*mn, I have to stop reading Michael Moore.)

 

[Sickman]

Why these kind of "forced" issues (liked markings in cigarette boxes) always make think Seinfeld and his joke about human stupidity.
Or more precise about how stupid people increase their speed to the point in which time they have to wear helmets to safe that stupidity from being damaged.

I just wait the time when people wear belts not to become obese and entire families wearing helmets inside car in heavy traffic.

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by phoenix_night




Immaterial? No, it's not. It's not the government telling the people how to live or anything like. You need to stop thinking of the state and the population as two completely separate and independent entities, because they aren't.

"This would be a signal to producers as well as consumers and serve more broadly as a signal to society that nutritional content in food is important."

Not only do they recommend it, they'll toss in a nice little tax for incentive! Why shouldn't they make a buck off of people's stupidity? That's what got them there in the first place!

Why don't you just tell me, that if I decide I want to donate to charity, and I do so, then I am being totalitarian for telling myself how to live my life...

Hey, good one. Clearly, the state making a choice for you is exactly the same as you making a choice for yourself.

 

[IglooDame]

Originally posted by The Person
And just as I was assured all stupid things come from America...
(D*mn, I have to stop reading Michael Moore.)

Don't stop reading Michael Moore, just start reading Rush Limbaugh as well. Exploring the similarities and differences between them will be good mental exercise.

Extremists annoy me.

 

[phoenix_night]

Originally posted by thestonesfan
"This would be a signal to producers as well as consumers and serve more broadly as a signal to society that nutritional content in food is important."

Not only do they recommend it, they'll toss in a nice little tax for incentive! Why shouldn't they make a buck off of people's stupidity? That's what got them there in the first place!

Hey, good one. Clearly, the state making a choice for you is exactly the same as you making a choice for yourself.

Congratulations on ignoring everything I just said! In fact, why is there even a quote of my previous post there?

Let me say again! The state is not some independent entity with no relation to its people! Claiming such a measure if passed with the people's support to be totalitarian, would be tantamount to claiming any decision I make as an individual would be totalitarian in the way it controls my life. Crazy. Sorry, thestonesfan, but the people of the UK do have a will and that one, when preparing legislation for the United Kingdom, is far more important than yours.

 

[Speedo]

@speedo, every woman says that.

No... they don't.