| | Why not just tax the fat people? ... a slob tax.
Right! It's not salt, sugar, or fat that makes people fat (and therefore, more medically expensive to 'upkeep'); it's personal choice that makes people fat. If we're going to tax anything, then it has to be our individual and objective parameters of health. In fact, this evil dictate would look something like this ...
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Hypertension Tax: $3 (adjusted, 2000 USD) per year for every 'mm Hg' above 'high-normal'
High Blood Lipid Tax: $1 for triglycerides and LDLs; -$2 for HDLs (possible tax credit available here; due to high HDLs!)
Glucose Intolerance Tax: $3 per year for every 'mg/dL' above 'high-normal'
Obesity Tax: $5 per year for every '% body fat' above "high-normal"
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Genetic Tax (taxing you for simply having a 1st-degree relative die prematurely from a chronic disease) would have to be implemented later, when more people considered themselves to be mere serfs to the State, existing only upon State permission.
Ed
[know your enemies]
;-)
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