yinOBESE plan Part 2
October 21st 2006 01:19
O so now I feel the pressure to deliver since the last post. I have brought up my 'ingenious' plan to a few friends and work colleagues and have noticed that the slim build people agree with me. While the larger people blast me for being so insensitive. "Well that's easy for you to say! You're tiny!"... This I didn't expect, as the first person I spoke to about it was my husband, who is pushing the overweight line into obesity, and he LOVED the idea.
So my plan is. If the nation is going further into debt because of obese related issues, it should be that after you reach a certain body fat index you are taxed slightly higher. So overweight people might have just a slight tax increase, and then obese people will have a higher tax increase. Now I know this sounds almost like punishing the obese for their condition, and encouraging unhealthy behavior in an attempt to stay in the lower tax brackets, but my plan is multi faceted.
As well as taxing larger people more, they will be offered free services such as gym membership, counseling, visits to the nutritionist etc. I don't know exactly how much on offer, or what services would be most appropriate, but I guess that would be determined by experts. Perhaps it would be different case by case, but I don't know if that would be the best course of action.
Initially, there may be no national savings, and perhaps it might even cost more to implement this idea. This, I think, isn't a big deal, as it is a long term plan. That just like drug rehab, the idea is to teach obese people better lifestyle plans, better stress coping mechanisms than hiding away from the world and eating etc. Skills they can use for the rest of their life. As their weight drops, so would their taxes, so it would be an extra incentive and boost to low self esteem. Further down the line of it being for the future, is that statistically, research has proven that fat adults, raise fat children, and slim adults raise slim children. So the skills learnt to stay healthy get passed down to each generation, and each generation will gradually reduce the amount of money that will be needed to cover obese related conditions.
Of course some people have medical conditions which result in excess weight, no matter what they do with their lifestyle or diet - and I would suggest they be except form the higher taxes.
So my plan is. If the nation is going further into debt because of obese related issues, it should be that after you reach a certain body fat index you are taxed slightly higher. So overweight people might have just a slight tax increase, and then obese people will have a higher tax increase. Now I know this sounds almost like punishing the obese for their condition, and encouraging unhealthy behavior in an attempt to stay in the lower tax brackets, but my plan is multi faceted.
As well as taxing larger people more, they will be offered free services such as gym membership, counseling, visits to the nutritionist etc. I don't know exactly how much on offer, or what services would be most appropriate, but I guess that would be determined by experts. Perhaps it would be different case by case, but I don't know if that would be the best course of action.
Initially, there may be no national savings, and perhaps it might even cost more to implement this idea. This, I think, isn't a big deal, as it is a long term plan. That just like drug rehab, the idea is to teach obese people better lifestyle plans, better stress coping mechanisms than hiding away from the world and eating etc. Skills they can use for the rest of their life. As their weight drops, so would their taxes, so it would be an extra incentive and boost to low self esteem. Further down the line of it being for the future, is that statistically, research has proven that fat adults, raise fat children, and slim adults raise slim children. So the skills learnt to stay healthy get passed down to each generation, and each generation will gradually reduce the amount of money that will be needed to cover obese related conditions.
Of course some people have medical conditions which result in excess weight, no matter what they do with their lifestyle or diet - and I would suggest they be except form the higher taxes.
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