Should fat people pay more tax?

[Guest Mod_Man]

This is probably going to annoy a lot of people but i personally think they should pay more taxes.

 

Obesity costs the NHS £500.000.000 a year and the country as a whole £7.400.000.000 a year. As a smoker i pay extra tax for the strain i put on the NHS yet an obese person pays no extra tax.

 

Obese people naturally consume more of the worlds resources, more food means more land taken up for agriculture, more packaging for more food means more trees chopped down for packaging, a car laden with more weight would use up more fuel, it's very hard to get two overweight people on a bus seat so ultimately more busses would need to be put on roads to cope with the lack of room.

 

Finally why do obese people think it fine to comment on a thin person saying things like " you need to eat more " or " you look ill ". Im 10 stone and have been at the receiving end of such comments. If i were to tell a fat person they need to eat less and the way they look makes me feel ill there would be an outrage. " Which will no doubt follow.".

 

I would also find it highly hypocritical if this thread gets removed after some of the things allowed on this site recently regarding immigrants and youths.

 

Thanks for reading.

[jena76 10]

i agree but i think u may get a bit of stick for this thread :hihi:

[Guest Mod_Man]

Im ready for it. Like i say overweight people think it fine to comment on other people but not about themselves.

[beansforyou 10]

Surely obese people pay more tax when they are buying the extra food they consume, probably stood behind you when you buy your fags

 

So that kind of puts the tax strain theory out of the debate.

[jena76 10]

Im ready for it. Like i say overweight people think it fine to comment on other people but not about themselves.

yes its true. when i was really skinny and couldnt put weight on no matter what i used to get large women making comments all the time. aswell with me having long blonde hair used to get called barbie and other names.The fact is most can dish it out but cant take it

[BoroughGal 10]

What makes you think that all fat people make those sorts of comments?

 

I don't think the thread will be removed for any other reason than it's been done, like, a zillion times before.

[jena76 10]

What makes you think that all fat people make those sorts of comments?

 

I don't think the thread will be removed for any other reason than it's been done, like, a zillion times before.

well this one is different i didnt post on any of the others

[Guest Mod_Man]

Surely obese people pay more tax when they are buying the extra food they consume, probably stood behind you when you buy your fags

 

So that kind of puts the tax strain theory out of the debate.

 

But thats the standard tax we all pay. As a smoker i pay an extra tax.

[Thunzi 10]

Surely obese people pay more tax when they are buying the extra food they consume, probably stood behind you when you buy your fags

 

So that kind of puts the tax strain theory out of the debate.

A large proportion of food is VAT free. Typically its the unhealthy stuff that is zero-rated VAT like takeaways and full VAT of 21% is applied to healthy drink options like tomato juice. Have a read of this here There won't be a fat tax, far far too difficult to implement and monitor.

[Meaks 11]

Are you suggesting a pie tax?

[jena76 10]

Are you suggesting a pie tax?

yep eat more pies pay more tax! result

[Guest Mod_Man]

Are you suggesting a pie tax?

 

What with the rise in Pie assaults maybe there should be a pie tax. It would probably bring the crime rate down.