Junk food, fast food tax
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Gimme a fuking break!
Yeah boy! They want to do this because they care about the health of our citizens
Your opinion:
Should they do this or not?
I don't think it's fair. Our country is out of money and health care is only going to get worse with diabetes and obesity one of the leading causes. But...healthy people still get sick, cancer, etc and use the system. The fact is taxes just need to be raised across the board to pay for this stuff. Even as a repub and fiscal conservative taxes need to go out. Where the f- are we going to get money from otherwise?
i sure wish that when i exceeded my budget i could just levy ridiculous taxes on somebody instead of cutting back on stuff....
what happens when you run out of other people`s money?..
These fast food joints are just as bad as cigarette companies. This is one time i will stick up for health insurance companies. Eating this shit daily does nothing but harm ya. Imagine if u are an insurance company and now u have to pay the bills for people eating this shit when they know it is bad for them? Just my opinion.
Gimme a fuking break!
Yeah boy! They want to do this because they care about the health of our citizens
Your opinion:
Should they do this or not?
Fatsos who gobble huge quantities of sugar and fat have higher than average health costs, so, whether you buy insurance private policy, company policy or through government plans, you pay more to treat diseases like diabetes and heart failure.
If taxing sugary drinks and triple chili-cheeseburgers causes gluttons to consume less of that crap, it will save you money.
One way or another you're paying for this -
Amazing the amount of people who need the gov to lead their lives--tell em what to eat-what to drive- etc--of course most these same people have been dependent on gov their whole lives--they never seen a tax or entitlement they didn't like--
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We need those taxes to pay for those bullshit wars, that kill innocent civilians all over the world, that you love. Just think the next time you order three Big-Macs for dinner, to go with your Budweisers, be happy that at least you are paying for the death of more brown people all over the world with each bite. Lets be honest. Knowing this you are going back for more.
I can't believe some of you really think we should have to pay higher taxes on junk/fast food :sadwave: I want the government out of my life as much as possible
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Even if it were true the gluttons costs taxpayers money in increase health costs (which, it turns out, they don't) you could apply this argument for hundreds of other items for more restrictions/taxes/regulations....Why not just admit you wish every citizen should eventually get a brand on their back that reads "Property of the US Government"?
Great, just great, Terry. You link some POS info from Slate, which says just the opposite of what the AMA and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles in JAMA, The Lancet and elsewhere say.
Why don't you just quote Glenn Beck?
Here, take just one disease, diabetes -
From 1997 to 2003, there was a 41% increase in the incidence of diagnosed diabetes. In 2003, two out of every 1,000 normal-weight people had diabetes. In the same year, diabetes struck 18.3 out of every 1,000 obese people, and 5.5 out of every 1,000 overweight people.
And that's just people who know they have diabetes. Many people with diabetes have not yet been diagnosed.
Geiss and colleagues report their findings in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
That's right, a real finding of fact by medically and statistically qualified people, reported in a genuine peer reviewed medical journal.
And you hang your hat on Slate.
LMFAO at you, dumb sumbitch.
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boy, you are so rich!
did you notice that the Slate piece had links to several influential peer review articles?
Check those articles citation histories! Very influential peer review articles.
I also posted the Slate piece because it discusses these issues in a manner the lay audience here would understand better than links to a bunch of technical abstracts.
"Slate" has decidedly a different in reputation than Glenn Beck anyway, what a comparison:mj07:
I had a post on all this back in 2009.
The CBO issued a letter (warning pdf) a few months after my post (great minds think alike!) pointing out how most all preventative health programs will increase, not decrease, US health care costs.
again (tho I really shouldn't have to point it out!) look at the articles cited by the CBO from The New England Journal of Medicine, American Diabetes Association, and so on. The testimony of researchers from American Cancer Society and such...
Duff, all this reminds me of another post of yours I almost forgot to respond to...
