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| Source:The Young Turks- talking about obesity. |
"Over one-third of Americans are now obese. What is the impact on employers, health insurance premiums, and other things like gas usage? Should fat people be taxed? Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, Lucas Lilieholm, Jayar Jackson, and Jesus Godoy break down a Reuters report on this topic on The Young Turks.
Read more here from Sharon Begley:Reuters."
From The Young Turks
I'm not a nanny statist and someone who believes in any form of big government. But I also don't like the idea of irresponsible people (like obese people) being able to pass the cost of their personal, expensive, decisions, onto people who aren't obese, who aren't heavy smokers and perhaps don't smoke at all, who aren't heavy drinkers of alcohol either.
If people want to stuff their faces, smoke their lungs out, drown their kidney's and hearts in alcohol, that's their personal decisions, just as long as taxpayers don't have to pay for their bad personal decisions.
I'm not with the the Mike Bloomberg's and the other nanny statists who want to prohibit people from making bad decisions with their own lives. But I think taxing junk food, soft drinks, alcohol, and tobacco, products, that are obviously bad for people, makes sense. And is a much better idea, then forcing people to cover the costs of others bad personal decisions.
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