OldGoat99

Well we can't tax idiots,,, but we have to live with them... (I can name a few on this board that fit that perfectly right now) Although we do get lucky with some selective breeding.... But then there are the dumb ones that can't see reason until it smacks them in the face. But being stupid is not illegal yet... But I bet someone would love to tax it if give the republican response to taxing everything and spending it on stupid bridges to no where (Alaska) I give up it is hard to reason and explain to those that can figure out a concept as simple as this one. Oh well

Here is one I just got....

I think you are the person with a problem and think you must fit the over eater problem and need to get out more often. So here is your incentive to get out and stop being offended by your weight issue and get healthy. Then again... obese people do die younger due to health issues??? never mind forget my recommendations... I bet your the type that eats a big mac and fry's and a ice cream with a diet coke too

You see the logic in this tax is to tax the items that are not healthy for you and reduce the tax on the things that are healthy for you. Tax this stuff at a higher rate Soda Ice Cream Candy Donuts chips etc No or reduced tax Apple Fruits meat taters This puts the burden of bad foods and costs on those that want to eat it and end up with a un-healthy life style. Same as smokers and drinkers pay the extra tax...

I guess we have to watch your posts too. Does that mean we can never start the same topic ever again? I guess not with your mentality.... Humm If I did not have to work and sat on my butt I could find a few of yours, But the topic is about a fat tax or really more along the lines of taxing those that put a drain on the medical system due to their own poor choices.

I guess you are offend and must be fat too. HUH I gather your fatness gives you the issue on being fat and obese.... You must have the over eaters elbow and forget to pushway from the table issue too. Being fat is not a medical disease... (except for a seriously small number of people) 99% of fat people are that way due to their own accord. And we all know it.... So push away from the table and skip your fatty foods.... And get healthy like you should... I think you have the real issue instead of addressing your problem as smokers do and quit you need to get out a

Keep it simple and tax the items that are know to cause problems. Forget the individual per se and go after the fatty foods and bad foods. This would force the maker to make better foods and those that wanted the bad foods would have to pay the tax. You can still be fat, just pay the additional tax on the bad foods.... We know ice cream is bad, but yogurt is all in all good for you. Use the same plan across the board. Give incentives to those that meet the weight standards. No waivers, no Doctors, no exams

Interesting: British Dieters Earn Nearly $3,000 to Lose Weight http://www.thatsfit....2&spid=35258515 Do a google search on the cost of being overweight... hummmmm Lots of cost comparisons on this. http://www.google.co...d121c88310e67e3 There are a lot of sites noting the extra cost of being overweight.... So there is some fact behind the issue and over weight folks.... Not sure how to enforce this kind of tax other then taxing bad foods like you tax beer and liquor and cigarettes. I really think this is a great idea and a heck of a money maker an

I know this will stir the pot, But my point is that if you are going to keep taxing smokers to the point they can't afford it they will either quit or get them from another state etc. Now NY smokers really don't get their cigs from NY do you think? They buy them over the internet etc. I look at it as if you are going to start and continue to target a group for bad health reasons. You need to look at Fat people as they are a great target for a tax and we all know most overweight people are a burden on the medical care system just as bad if not worse then smokers. So what

That is by the last election... Can we use the one before (Bush win) and get a different result?

Lets get a fat tax movement going. Those that are fat should pay a fat tax since they are more likely to be sick and use the medical system for those diseases... (just like smokers) Lets get a grass roots fat tax system in place. We can work it off the smokers tax and use the same scale to assign a tax to a person for each pound overweight.... That should generate millions and millions of dollars from those that are not healthy. Now I know everyone that is against it must not agree with taxing someone that is fat, but why? They are unhealthy and create their own

I miss the point on the first link.... Second links shows Georgia a Republican state.... I also know Georgia has a lot of taxes for just about everything. I also would like to see taxes for a reason and that tax money going for that reason not some other pet project of Sonny Perdue or the government. The new tax would not even go for medical costs, but everything else under the son. (Well maybe some of it). Why don't they just raise the insurance rates of smokers and then drinkers to the level of the disease they have? then tax the heck out of fat people that use the medical care syst

What I love about it is that they want to use the money for other reasons. I say they need to raise the taxes on Alcohol to the same level per drink too. They can then remove my local taxes, pay my car insurance and if I am lucky pay my mortgage payments. I love the tax and spend state of Georgia. This is a republican state right? Did they not raise the tax a few years ago and where does all the current $2.00 a pack tax go too? And don't say it is only 37cents.. go buy a pack to see the real cost at $30-$40 a carton is not all tobacco costs. And I remember the last tax

I have another county police car that is parked in a neighbors front yard all the time... Now that would be funny if he got a ticket.... LOL

Its the fast folks mixing with the slow pokes..... like oil ad water.... I had the 4o mph red full size ford van driving like my great great grand ma (who is no longer with us) in the fast lane with everyone passing them in the right slow lane. Everyone was swapping lanes to get around them. So it is not always the fast folks causing stupid problems for everyone.

No way... more fitting for Palin but Biden is a few feet back

My thoughts were that is was loosely translated to mean something like this R eservation S ervice V ery P romptly

I just hope he hires someone that is a pain in his arse and dumb as a box of rocks. Just a little pay back to him would be nice. He sounded like a jerk boss. he had his right to cover the company, but he still sounded like a jerk. I wish her the best of luck..

I don't think she really lost much of a job. She put him on the spot and was wrong on that point. But it sounds like he was a SOB anyway. I missed today's follow up though.... can anyone shed some light on the new out come this morning? Thanks,

Heck this is just great.. Now the wife can really bury me behind the shed out back for sure.... I least it will be easy walk to come in the house and bug her,,,,

I don't know... but you seem to know more than the contractor... and it makes sense good luck...

The way I see it if the Republicans can't get something out of it for them they are against it. If they can get the government to pay for it they like it. The republican party is the true tax and spend party. The problem with our government is the two party system and those that can get into congress for a life time and push their own agenda. Term limits for all jobs would eliminate all the crony crap. I will always vote the incumbent out unless they are someone as scary a Palin. Then the village idiot gets the vote. :rofl:

oh just shut it down until summer.... let the parents keep the kids home and teach them... unbelievable.... they would not even think of closing school up north until a car can' drive down the road first....

I guess one that know more then you do... http://www.nalc.org/postal/perform/productivity.html Some people just have no clue..... Got to do the research for them...

I guess you did not know that the post office is self sufficient and pays all their own bills etc. and gets no other money then from postal fees. Wait a minute did the Republicans find a way to give them subsidies?