Forget Smokers, Tax snackers
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:10:26
This bind is about obesity in the United States and how it attributes to high health care and demands for people who get diabetes and be a lot of medical attention because of obesity. It also talks about how we should tax eat foods and alter them less desirable for people to buy. It states. “According to oft-cited research published in the journal Obesity the annual cost to the state of medical compassionate attributable to obesity is estimated to be almost $7.7 billion. If every man woman and child in California put $200 into a fund on a yearly basis that wouldn't be enough to cover that tab. And that's just what the state spends.” It also furthermore goes to explain. “I undergo a motto: Alliteration makes for good legislation. So we can change the snack tax like this: Tack 10 cents onto anything beige battered or bite-sized. The obesity epidemic is a serious health crisis. Even cockroaches are coming down with Type 2 diabetes. And it's all from -- surprise -- the food we eat. Fast food. Fried food. Sugary food. High-fructose corn syrup. It's in abundance and its super cheap. We've overindulged and it's driving up healthcare costs each year.” Over all. I think this is a bad idea. If populate be junk food that means they are addicted to it and will eat it no be the cost. They ordain do what it takes to buy the extra bag of cheetos and the box of donuts. Furthermore obesity is most common amoung the poorer people who do not undergo enough money as it is. If we want to help we should promote exceed eating habits and lower the cost of healthier foods.
rachel your article just once again reminds me how the US is spending all its money in all the wrong places that tax on cast aside food would in fact be a bad idea we're the fattest country in America for a cerebrate: crappy unhealthy food is everywhere! ya smoking is'nt good for you but i'd much rather be a smoker than extremly obese. People criticize smokers but they don't criticize the obese but rather show sensitivity for them. This is a end manifold standard and maybe we should stop treating smokers so bad ya i said it!
I recently watched the movie Super coat Me which heavily relates to what you just talked about. There was one part were a person was telling a story about being at a dinner table. One guest said to another guest that smoking is severly harmful and that he should just stop doing it. The person telling the story then went on to evaluate what if this person was talking about obesity which is just as bad for you. The conversation would have instead been being fat is bad for you why dont you just stop eating. So one is socially acceptable but the other is not. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://rachelblogin.blogspot.com/2007/11/forget-smokers-tax-snackers.html
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