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Offline Gh0stFT

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« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2006, 04:54:00 PM »
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People have to be held responsible for their OWN actions not have the "State" be a fulltime surrogate mommy


how true,
but it looks like it dont work,
why else the state planing such tax?
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« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2006, 04:59:13 PM »
A special tax on fatty or otherways unhealthy food isn't and shouldn't be the answer.

Proper labeling of food, including fast food, would be a better choice.

Having a caloric breakdown in type large enough for people to actualy read and printed on all fast food wrappers or containers would go a long way towards helping people make the right choice.

As it is now, trying to figure out that that Whopper with cheese has 850 calories, about 450 from fat, and the bun has about 50 grams of carbohydrates of which only 5 are fiber, isn't very easy.

Sure, they'll post a placard with those numbers but there's a disconnect  when the info on that placard isn't on the food wrapper itself.

I'm all for personal choice but I also believe that the public needs to have this info available on the product they're buying to make that informed choice.
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« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2006, 05:10:16 PM »
...and proper education.

I think most people are skeptical of what the Dr's push because these are the same pointy heads that say coffee is bad one week, yet not the next.

I dont think taxing is the solution.  And for what its worth, remove it from booze and cigarettes.  Clearly making the more expensive aint ceased them behavior.  But various organizations love the income from the tax revenue.  And want more!
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« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2006, 05:16:22 PM »
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A special tax on fatty or otherways unhealthy food isn't and shouldn't be trying to figure out that that Whopper with cheese has 850 calories


Whopper * 3 = done for the whole day with calories (if you are over 30 and sitting your main sport is), aprox of course ;) hehe
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« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2006, 05:49:58 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2006, 08:29:21 PM »
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Alcohol and cigarettes are not necessities, food is.



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Anyway, this is the result of the ideology that you can tax away your problems.  


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Having a caloric breakdown in type large enough for people to actualy read and printed on all fast food wrappers or containers would go a long way towards helping people make the right choice.


No, it wouldn't.  The more information you tell someone does not matter to the consumer.  Do you think that even 1/10 people look at the nutrition label on a bottle of coke?

I say we get rid of all this nanny BS.  The fatties will kill themselves off soon enough and we won't have a health problem.
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« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2006, 08:48:12 PM »
But the rest of us need to quit financing their fatty medical care with our tax dollars.  

Your lifestyle choice, don't make me pay for it.
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« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2006, 08:55:43 PM »
If they wanna make my skinny prettythang  wear a motorcycle helmet, they ought make the FAR more numerous (and therefore more expensive) fat bastids pay for their unhealthy life styles, which often lead to  heart disease and diabetes
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« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2006, 09:03:59 PM »
Personal responsibility of individuals and parents are being replaced by lawyers.


Awesome.
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« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2006, 09:37:00 PM »
I say we tax tobacco $5 per ounce, they're my lungs to ruin, not yours.
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« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2006, 10:14:14 PM »
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« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2006, 10:20:43 PM »
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If they wanna make my skinny prettythang  wear a motorcycle helmet, they ought make the FAR more numerous (and therefore more expensive) fat bastids pay for their unhealthy life styles, which often lead to  heart disease and diabetes


Oh kewl.. that makes sense. 'They screwed me.. now lets have 'em screw you'.

Nothin frosts my cupcakes faster than some guy explaining away the next assinine government regulatory boondoggel with a previous assinine regulatory boondoggel.

Now I'm gonna get fat on all these damn cupcakes that just got frosted..
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« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2006, 10:26:34 PM »
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Now I'm gonna get fat on all these damn cupcakes that just got frosted..


Ahhh, quit your *****in' and just wash 'em down with a Coke.  Or Pepsi.  Or whatever is the soda of your choice.  Because, after all, it's all about choice...
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« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2006, 10:29:02 PM »
I want to tax doctors for have nurses tend to my needs while if Im lucky I actually see a doctor at all.
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« Reply #29 on: June 12, 2006, 11:01:52 PM »
Fast food dont make you fat

Stuffing your face with it 3 times a day every day is what makes you fat.
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