Taxing Fatty Foods Or Health Insurers Gains Traction

More gross stupidity alert!

"Lawmakers are considering two new taxes to help pay for a health care overhaul: a tax on fatty foods and taxing insurers on so-called Cadillac plans. Both proposals were scrutinized in news articles.

Forbes reports that while 'chances are slim,' a fat tax could 'help offset the cost of ObamaCare.' A study released Monday by the Urban Institute and the University of Virginia found that 'a 10% excise or sales tax on fattening foods could raise $522 billion over the next 10 years. A 20% tax could raise $937 billion. Among its other uses (like paying down the deficit), that money could be used to defray the costs of health care reform or to curb the rise in obesity.'"

I am only gonna comment on the fat tax.

The imbeciles in DC are using collective punishment to pay for their doomed-to-fail anyway plans.

If you want to tax, which you should, then tax the fat for their abuse of the system.

A proper Corporal Gains, i.e., fat tax, is easy.

Tax what fatsos use and intended-size humans don't.

"'But one group is 'waging a multimillion-dollar media campaign in the Washington, D.C., area to stomp out any thoughts of food or drink taxes.' Americans Against Food Taxes is a coalition of industry organizations that includes the National Restaurant Association, the American Beverage Association and the National Grocers Association, as well as some individual companies. The group argues that such taxes are regressive. But 'lobbying aside, any effort to raise taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages is likely to face significant challenges. First among them: defining 'unhealthy.'… another concerns would involve implementing the tax itself, (Wingfield, 7/27)."

Good.

I may not agree with all these groups in other areas, but in this one, they are spot on.

If you are calorically responsible, don't let the fat, calorically irresponsible push you around.

Fight back!