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More Talk Of A Big Government Imposed “Fat Tax”

Those people in government and their associates will never stop imposing on our liberty, and they will keep inventing new ways to take our money. This needs to stop. Big government needs to get out of our lives and quit stealing our money. It seems people are under the false notion that it’s the government’s money. No. It is not.

Now, they want to openly discriminate against overweight people and make them pay a penalty because they aren’t what somebody elses idea of healthy is.

To go along with that, they want to impose taxes on food items they don’t deem appropriate. Whatever happened to the United States of America? It used to be a free country.

INDIANAPOLIS — Health experts have been trying to combat obesity in America for years and have recently suggested a new way to solve the growing problem.

A new study suggests that imposing a fat tax on unhealthy food and drinks could help slim down expanding waistlines.

It’s nobody’s business, period. “Health experts” can make suggestions, but trying to “nudge” people to do what they want them to do? And who gets to decide what’s unhealthy? Each persons metabolism is different, a one size fits all solution will never work. It’s just another way to take more money that doesn’t belong to them and take more freedom and impose somebody elses will as your law.

According to the British Medical Journal , more than 60 percent of Americans are overweight. Under the tax, a $4 cheeseburger would cost an extra 80 cents, RTV6′s Stacia Matthews reported.

So the BMJ says 60% of Americans are fat. Prove it. Let’s see the data. Where did they come up with those figures? Do they have access to Americans private medical records? You can’t just make a claim and not provide any proof. And the only way to prove it is to access every Americans health record.

This next quote by an unnamed Indiana woman will make your head explode. She has got to be the most helpless and worthless drone in the country.

“I’d pay 20 percent. It’s worth it,” one woman said. “I would eat a lot more healthy just to save more money.”

Here’s the rope now go hang yourself. People as lame as you should never have the right to live.

There’s a reason why you can’t take it upon yourself to eat healthy? Somebody have a gun to your head threatening that if you eat healthy they will kill you?

What an absolutely worthless individual that woman is. She obviously can not make a decision, big government needs to do it for her. That’s pathetic. That’s not the American way.

Nanny State Introduces Fat Tax

Think it can’t and won’t happen here? Two words, one name. Michelle Obama. Freedom and liberty are becoming a relic of the past. Check this out from ABC News:

Denmark has introduced what’s believed to be the world’s first fat food tax, applying a surcharge to foods with more than 2.3 percent saturated fats, in an effort to combat obesity and heart disease.

Danes hoarded food before the tax went into effect Saturday, emptying grocery store shelves. Some butter lovers may even resort to stocking up during trips abroad.

The new tax of 16 kroner ($2.90) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of saturated fat in a product will be levied on foods like butter, milk, cheese, pizza, oils and meat.

“Higher fees on sugar, fat and tobacco is an important step on the way toward a higher average life expectancy in Denmark,” health minister Jakob Axel Nielsen said when he introduced the idea in 2009, according to The Associated Press, because “saturated fats can cause cardiovascular disease and cancer.”

But some Danes are not happy about the ‘big brother’ feeling that comes with the tax.

“Denmark finds every sort of way to increase our taxes,” said Alisa Clausen, a South Jutland resident. “Why should the government decide how much fat we eat? They also want to increase the tobacco price very significantly. In theory this is good — it makes unhealthy items expensive so that we do not consume as much or any and that way the health system doesn’t use a lot of money on patients who become sick from overuse of fat and tobacco.  However, these taxes take on a big brother feeling.  We should not be punished by taxes on items the government decides we should not use.” Read the rest

Trust me folks, there are a lot of nanny’s in this country, particularly within the Obama Regime that would like nothing better than this in our country. And once the ObamaCare Socialized Medicine law goes in to full effect, it’s a done deal.