35. Mike2: If raising taxes so egregiously on tobacco users is considered a good idea, then an “obesity marginalization levy” is justified as well. Just think of all of the environmental damage obesity causes: Fat folks obviously fart more than skinny folks (methane is bad for the environment (it’s a greenhouse gas, you know)); it requires more fuel to haul a fatass around than a slender person; the amount of food that a gaggingly gargantuan gelatinous gulper consumes depletes the amount of food left for everybody else-increasing demand and forcing farmers to expand their fields which shrinks the available land for wildlife.
I also advocate (with consideration to the above) an “extreme ethanol consumption reduction levy.” (Only on finished product, not ingredients as I brew my own beer.) All those people exgassing beer farts is just plain wrong on so many levels. There’s no telling how many billion cubic meters of methane that such a tax would eliminate. And just think of the health benefits that this country would reap!
Maybe the gubmint could just tax the crap out of all of the obese, beer-drinking smokers until they are too poor to afford smokes, beer or food. A health utopia!
/sarc off
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