Thread: Fat Tax Yes Or No?

yes, because everything can be fixed with more taxes

Looks to have been written by someone skinny.

I am a featherweight, but eat like a heavyweight - so should I pay the tax too?

Always the same answer to a problem...............tax it. I don't know what the answer is, but if you choose a certain lifestyle and it is costing the tax payer to support your choice, I guess the money has to be recouped somehow.

GST is already levied on proccessed foods (ie, not staples). Surely that is a fat tax of sorts.

I don't think it will happen with the current treasurer .

I remember years ago going to the Blue Mountains and walking along an elevated walkway near Echo Point, it said it had been opened by Joe Hockey. I said to wifey, "At least you know it has been stress tested."

Jeff

Originally Posted by Jeff

I don't think it will happen with the current treasurer .

I remember years ago going to the Blue Mountains and walking along an elevated walkway near Echo Point, it said it had been opened by Joe Hockey. I said to wifey, "At least you know it has been stress tested."

Jeff

I thought he was thinner now with his austerity measures. Lucky he wasn't skinny to start with.

But skinny people are less likely to recover from serious disease than people who are overweight when they are older.

There have been studies that showed that fat stores help older patients to survive while skinny people have fewer internal resources and either take longer to recover or die. This takes up hospital resources

So lets have a skinny tax , starting with clothing models.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

But skinny people are less likely to recover from serious disease than people who are overweight when they are older.

There have been studies that showed that fat stores help older patients to survive while skinny people have fewer internal resources and either take longer to recover or die. This takes up hospital resources

So lets have a skinny tax , starting with clothing models.
Regards Philip A

But if we're being completely honest, when we say fat stores help older patients, we're talking moderate fat, not great big buckets of lard. Obesity costs a lost more than pretty much anything except smoking.