The Fat Tax

Well, leave it up to politicians to come up with inventive new ways to take your money away from you. Well politicians in Alabama have taken the senister lead.

Alabama is looking into charging its state employees a fee if they are deemed to be obese. This is all touted to help with budgetary shortfalls, and to make their employees maintain a more heathly lifestyle.

Well i feel both of these reasons are wrong. Alabama you are having budgetary shortfalls because your jackass leaders are addicted to spending money that is not theirs. Also the jackass politicians are try to dictate how a person should live. The phrase Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness comes to mind here. If in your pursuit of happiness, there lies you being overweight, what right does government have to say anything about it.

I know i will get the arguement from some saying that overweight people put a burden on the system, and will cost us more tax money for healthcare when the retire. This might be true. But if the whole medical system was privatized with no government involvement, it would not be a factor. Because in a competitive free market society everyone would pay for their, no one elses. But truly does overweight mean that you will have more health issues? No, i know plenty of healthy "overweight" people. I personally am around 240 lbs, 10 years ago i was around 190 lbs. I see the doctor less now than i did 10 years ago. So i think this crap about health problems should be put to rest.

But my main problem with this scenario that Alabama is trying to push is the humiliation that the government is bringing to the table. One of the ideas they are trying to push is to have office weigh ins. Making it to where you have to step on the scale in front of everyone in the office. This is pathetic step to try to humiliate people into doing what you want them to do.

People of Alabama, and we have a few readers there, i would hope that you would stand up for those in your state and see this idea defeated.

Viva Liberty!