Get ready for a tax on "excess" pounds

[DrMA]

Taking a page from the tobacco control industry, the global health nannies have come up with the "costs" of obesity and, naturally, equated them to smoking.

BBC News - Obesity 'costing same as smoking'

This follows swiftly after the first move against sugar from earlier this year: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...748-thus-starts-first-move-against-sugar.html

I expect rapidly-increasing ANTZ-like chatter spewing out of the ASOZ (anti sugar and obesity zealots) activists culminating in some sort of tax for excess weight to purportedly "offset" the healthcare costs associated with obesity. I can also see another unholy cabal forming to shake down the food industry in a TMSA-like racket, perhaps with an SMSA (sugar) or FMSA (fat)?

It'll probably be tricky to manufacture 2nd hand and 3rd hand health claims here, but I'm sure the ASOZ will eventually figure it out and we'll start to see indoor bans for obese people. The "normalization" and "for the chillin" chatter is already beginning, and I'm sure in short time we'll have bacon bans in public places, soda size restrictions, mandatory and graphic health warning on packaging...

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

I ain't fat! I just gotz big bones.

The problem with the lard haters is they can't find a single food group to ban. It drives them nuts so they go after restaurant chains instead. And nobody should underestimate these whackos. As I recall, they were responsible for McDonald's eliminating their "Super Size" menu. (And I still gained weight. 8-o)

It'll probably be tricky to manufacture 2nd hand and 3rd hand health claims here,

So says yet another innocent soul that has not sampled Mrs. Kodiak's burritos.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

ASOZ

Say that fast and it pretty much describes both groups.

 

[twgbonehead]

It'll probably be tricky to manufacture 2nd hand and 3rd hand health claims here,

That fat guy sat on my friend and I almost had a heart attack!

 

[Nate760]

If I wanted to employ the same attitude on this subject that most people do on tobacco and smoking, I guess I'd say "I'm skinny. What do I care if they tax fat people?"

 

[DrMA]

Say that fast and it pretty much describes both groups.

That was intentional