Fat tax

[Turkish]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/16/fat-tax-unhealthy-food-effect?newsfeed=true

 

Claims that it needs to be put up to 20% to stop gutty cu*ts eating burgers. What are all you lovely peoples thoughts on this? Should fat people be allowed to eat themselves to death or should we keep prices down and live and let live and if they want to live of burgers, litres of coke and so on let them?

[CB Saint]

Providing the cost of their obesity related medical bills is less that the cost of their pension and old age care, them let them crack on. Same for smokers.

[ecuk268]

It's a myth that you can't eat well unless you're well off.

 

Learn a bit of cooking and you can make good healthy meals for no more than it costs to buy processed crap.

[Dog]

It will never stop the egg & chippers eating burgers & kebabs, they will just buy less White Lightning now that's gone up from £2.50 to £7.50 for 4 Ltrs.

 

Most burger monsters are friends with the staff on the drive-thru's so they either get it free or less than half price.

[swannymere]

Being a fatty and knowing i will drop dead of a massive heart attack by the time i'm 60 (at the very outside), it makes me feel proud to be saving my country money by doing the honourable thing and not living forever whilst claiming a pension and needing full time care for 30 years. Shame on the fit people whose only contribution will be to dribble and talk drivel into their old age.

[Lighthouse]

Trust the fatties to ruin fast food for the rest of us. It wont work either, if people are willing to shorten their lives by about 20 years to keep eating burgers a 20% tax hike wont put them off. I've seen people who would walk through fire for a KFC family bucket

[dune]

I blame the whole fast food culture on women in the workplace. If they were at home preparing food there would be no fast food industry.

[Turkish]

I blame the whole fast food culture on women in the workplace. If they were at home preparing food there would be no fast food industry.

 

I quite agree. As the skill pool would be smaller due to far less women trying to be like men and equal opportunities nonsense for women in the workplace seeing them get jobs they ill qualified for wages would high as well. They are more to blame than immigrants.

[Turkish]

Of course this could have a knock on effect to all you greedy f*ckers that go to SMS and can't go 90 minutes without eating. You half time refuel is going to start costing more.

[Turkish]

How do you expect someone to sit still for 2 hours watching tiring sport without taking on the necessary calories? Any decent fan needs at least 800 calories per half for optimum support performance.

 

to be fair the frantic hand clapping during every song of most of the northam end would burn off those calories.

[bridge too far]

If there was a fat tax, most of you wouldn't be on here because you wouldn't be able to afford the membership fee