Tuesday, November 11, 2008

How about a fat tax?

Just when the government should be cutting down on expenditure it is instead trying to spend and borrow it's way out of the financial mess that gormless gordon got us in.

In another total waste of time and money "health initiative" it's now piloting a scheme where fat people will get a reward card and gain points for walking their kids to school and going to exercise classes etc.

Leaving aside the obvious question, why should the tax payer reward these lazy fat bastards at all, what has happened to this governments usual method of trying to tax people into submission?

To try and stop us driving our cars they tax us. To try and stop us smoking they tax us. To try and stop us drinking they tax us. So why not have a fat tax as well?

Every station, supermarket, airport, etc should have three turnstyles, small, medium and large abd people should be chraged according to their size and weight with the lardy arses paying more. A bus, train or plane full of normal size people will use far less fuel than the same vehicle full of obese people so why shouldn't they pay extra?

We could have scales on a bus linked to the Oyster card reader so the overweight pay extra. And then just like smokers, drinkers and motorists fat gits could either pay extra taxes or stop eating so much and do some exercise now and again.

The reason these people are overweight is their own fault and using tax payers money to try and bribe them into eating less and taking more exercise is a disgraceful waste of tax payers money.

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