Many people are advocating a fat tax or a junk food tax. The following
is a debate between leader of the New Fat Acceptance Movement Fat
Bastard and world reknowned weight loss guru CG Brady.
Is a fat tax a good idea?
CG Brady: I would support a fat tax and possibly a junk food tax. With
deaths from obesity reaching nearly 500,000 per year and climbing combined with the
staggering costs of obesity something clearly needs to happen.
Fat Bastard: I oppose a fat and junk food tax. Fatlings love junk food
and there is no reason to tax people based on their body weight. If fact
fat people are an economic stimulus and good for the economy. We
consume more food, gas and medical treatment and that is good for the
economy. Gluttony is good.
CG Brady: Unfortunately most of the massive consumerism does little to
stimulate small businesses which are the backbone of a strong economy.
The restaurants frequented by fat people for example are owned by huge
corporations and they pay their employees low wages. The oil companies
who benefit from the gas guzzlers that fat people drive are not good
corporate citizens and seek to squash small enterprenurial energy firms.
The medical industry is a mostly owned by big corporations whose way
of paying taxes is to simply pass it on to the consumer. Hospital
workers are poorly paid which in part accounts for the poor medical care
in the US that ends up costing the consumer nearly 3 times what medical
consumers pay in Europe.
Fat Bastard: This is about more than economics. Food is what America is
all about. It is part of our culture. I am proud that the USA is the
fattest nation on earth. A tax on what you call junk food and what I
call comfort food could devistate the fragile psyches of the great
American glutton. When asked about a fast food tax look what happened
to this SSBBW.
The very thought of eating salads turned this SSBBW's stomach!
Gluttony is a choice and taxing comfort food or body weight limits choice and it is clearly unconstitutional.
CG Brady: Are you serious Fat Bastard about a fat tax being unconstitutional?
Fat Bastard: Gluttony is like a religion and being fat and malodorous is
a form of expression. The musk of fat people says, "I fat and fuck you"
Also we gluttons have certain dietary customs and taxing the food we
customarily eat is a clear infringement on fat rights, the promotion
and normalization of gluttony and obesity. A fat tax is un-American.
Fat Bastard went on to quote the following article from Slate Magazine to illustrate the economic benefits of hyper gluttony.
http://www.slate.com/id/2123213/
The United States clearly has a head start in fatonomics. Obesity is a
byproduct of many complex factors, ranging from genetics to psychology.
But fast-food restaurants, sugar-laden drinks, and the availability of
massive quantities of cheap food have all played important roles in
making Americans heavier. So with any luck, the rest of the world will
be porking up soon. After all, which American companies have been
forging ahead aggressively in foreign markets? McDonald's, Coca-Cola,
and Wal-Mart. Their expansion should not only fatten the pockets of U.S.
investors, they should also help fatten the local populations. It's
only a matter of decades before China and India start to lose their
battles with the bulge. And where will they look for quack potions and
expensive surgeries?
CG Brady: Come now Fat Bastard. You wrote an article on Bigger Fatter
Blog called Save the Thinlings. In that article you explained how and
why by 2020 the US will be too fat bound to function. You pointed out
how out military and public safety is compromised. You are worried about
who's going to service all the fatlings. Your fantasy girlfriend MeMe
Roth rightly pointed out that by 2020 the US will be so fat bound that
we will be too fat to function. Former US Surgeon General Dr Richard
Carmona sees obesity as a greater threat to the national security of the
US than Islamic terrorism.
Would you want some fat cop like this guy protecting you?
Fat Bastard: Fatlings make great cops. So what they can't run? That's
why they have police dogs. More importantly fat cops are more
intimidating.
Who would strike more fear in the mind of a criminal? The cop on the left or the one on the right?
Moderator: If they do pass a fat tax of weight how do you think it will work?
CG Brady: I suppose it will be based on BMI and start at a 25 BMI or
higher. I don't think that would go far enough because millions fat
people are disabled due to their weight so I think a junk food tax would
create revenue and maybe keep the morbidly obese a bit healthier. I
think a dollar per pound on the federal tax would generate revenue and I
think that it should extend to the children of fatlings. Let's say we
have a family whose combined weight is 300 pounds over the limit then
their tax bill should be three hundred dollars but perhaps a better way
would be to provide a tax cut to thinlings who keep their BMI under 25.
Fat Bastard: If Dr Brady's proposals were ever instituted there would be
riots in cyberspace. The fatosphere would be ablaze with outrage.
Moderator: Would a junk food tax promote healthy eating?
CG Brady: It might but I suspect in the long run fatlings would
breakdown and pay a little extra for their kibble. A better solution
would be to restrict that foods can be purchased with food stamps to non
junk food foods.
Gratuitous images of SSBBWs for Proud FA.
Fat Bastard: Leave it to a socialist like CG Brady to allow the
government to dictate what people can or cannot eat. Eliminating
comfort food purchases with food stamps is another step towards
socialism. It could tear at the very fabric of our society. Keep
government's hands off my social security disability and my food stamps.
Fat people soon with be joining the tea party movement.
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