Death, Taxes, and Fat People

[Sasaki Kojiro]

1) Fat people do not necessarily die earlier. Being fat is not a quick death sentence, it only makes it more likely.

2) Currently, only one US state has an obesity rate under 20%. In other words, over one in five americans is obese. That is a drain on health care. IE- Diabetes.

You don't fix skyrocketing health care costs without making people have to be more personally accountable, and if you have do do that on the point of a sales tax, I'm all for it.

A sales tax is a poor solution though. You can eat unhealthy food, as long as you don't eat too much.

It would be like taxing bathing suits to pay for the costs of skin cancer.