Lord Raffles
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Big FAT Blog said:The fat tax is already here.
Every few months the idea of a "fat tax" - charging more for fatty foods, inevitably, in order to "cure" fat - comes around and gets spun by op-ed columnist hacks who've just come off flights seated next to fat people as the greatest thing ever. Why, just tax fat people! Problem solved.
Thing is, there is already a fat tax. It's called being fat.
I just read an article regarding a smoking ban and naturally the idea of doing something to those darn fat people who cost us so much came up in the comments. The wheels started turning. Think about it: being fat already costs more. We pay more, in money, for things such as clothing and definitely for health care (if you can actually get it in the first place.) On the clothing part, women get hit particularly hard.
And we pay more, psychologically and emotionally, for being fat. I'm not looking for pity here - just stating that from a societal level being fat "costs" more as well.
So whenever talk of a fat tax comes around, I think it's in our best interests to point out that even though we're supposedly "burdening" our health care system just by existing, we're already paying more than our fair share.
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"...we're already paying more than our fair share."
In additon to eating more than your fair share, greedy bitch.