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Originally Posted by kane
Are you equally angry at people with drug and alcohol problems or people who are in jail or people who have done stupid things that caused themselves to be badly injured and no longer able to work?
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Sorry, where did I say I was angry?
Alcohol is highly taxed, legal drugs are aswell.
There will always be a % of society who has a problem with drink/drugs or just idiots who injure themselves doing something stupid,
but with obesity rates soaring, it's going to cause massive problems.
Being badly injured is a shit load different to eating 10lb of icecream a day.
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Originally Posted by Jel
Still, who cares? People really think their taxes would go down? That they'd somehow be better off financially even to the tune of 1 cent? Of all the things in the world to actually get riled over, obese people in general (as kane said, unless directly causing you discomfort on a plane, in a queue, etc - just on plain sight according to the OP) has to be way down there with gingers and people wearing shoes you don't personally like  |
Taxes wont go down, but the service should improve.
You have kids who cant have an op because it costs $100k, then they have to spend $40k knocking down a wall and getting a crane to lift some 40 stone guy/girl out of their house cause their parents have been feeding them on bargain buckets.
Then because they are so fat, they get disability and the parents get paid as their carer. So just because that one person couldn't say no to cake, they cost $200k a year in benefits and medical costs.
If you're a smackhead, you dont get a carer, and if someone brings you drugs, they are prosecuted.
People are born ginger, they are not born obese.