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02-05-2015, 01:27 PM #1
Liberal Idea. Tax People By How Fat They Are. Says who? Creator Of Obamacare.
Former Obama Adviser: We Should Tax Fat People By Body Weight
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/03/fo...y-body-weight/
Jonathan Gruber, long credited as the architect of Obamacare, once discussed the necessity of taxing fat people by body weight in order to fight obesity.
“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,” Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010, just months after helping design Obamacare with the president in the Oval Office and during the period in which he was under contract as an Obama administration consultant.
“While it is hard to conceive of this approach being a common public policy tool in the near term, such taxation may be happening indirectly through health insurance surcharges,” he wrote. “Currently, employers may charge up to 20 percent higher health insurance premiums for employees who fail to meet certain health-related standards, such as attaining a healthy BMI.”
“The new health reform legislation increases this differential to 30 percent, with the possibility of rising to 50 percent. Results of programs that use differential premiums to impose direct financial penalties for obesity will bear watching in the future.”
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02-05-2015, 01:28 PM #2
All they want is $$$$$$$$$$$. You think they care about people being over weight?
It's like we are being controled like herds of cattle.
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02-05-2015, 01:29 PM #3
Not even free to live the way you want. Liberal America.
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02-05-2015, 01:32 PM #4
Socialist America. Pretty soon they will spend your paycheck how they seem fit.
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02-05-2015, 01:46 PM #5
Yes, because there aren't any conservative ideals that don't allow people to be free to live the way they want.
As for the topic, I think it's a bad idea to use taxes as a way to motivate people to lose weight. There are a lot more ways that would be way more effective than taxes. Although it's not that surprising for politicians to want to create more ways to get their hands on our tax dollars.
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02-05-2015, 01:48 PM #6
In my opinion the best way to help solve an obesity problem would be to use our many socialist programs to help educate people and help influence them into adopting better choices when it comes to food and exercise.
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02-05-2015, 01:50 PM #7
maybe some people want to eat and take the risks about it when doing so?
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02-05-2015, 02:07 PM #8
I agree. If I want to eat Big Macs every day I should be allowed to. Trying to tax people won't solve the issue. I still think focusing more on fitness and health in public schools would be beneficial to increase overall national health. The problem is that wouldn't raise funds for politicians.
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02-05-2015, 10:01 PM #9
I'd be curious if Michelle has a "healthy" BMI
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02-06-2015, 12:35 AM #10
Info I found puts her at 5'11" and 170 pounds which puts her BMI at 23.7 which is at the high end of normal (18.5-24.9).
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