Fat tax?? What next, Big Brother?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Take it easy insurance guy! I'm sure it wasn't personal

I didn't take it personally... I'm simply stating the truth. Odds are you'll never use the insurance that you have.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

If you don't like insurance don't buy it. After all the odds are in your favor of probably never needing to use it.

This highlights what I think is a divide in people's thinking.

I look at insurance and see it as something I am always using. To me the service it provides is that it sits there and waits. Ithas your back when you need to pay medical bills. The service is not just the paying of the medical bills but rather the ability to do so. In this way I am always using it.

It seems your way of thinking is that it is more like an account that you put money into and at some point you may or may not take money out.

I am not sure there is a right and wrong way of thinking about it but to me I like thinking that money spent on insurance that I never use is still money well spent because I know when I need it I will have it.

A slight distinction but huge in its effect or one's emotional reaction to insurance.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

This highlights what I think is a divide in people's thinking.

I look at insurance and see it as something I am always using. To me the service it provides is that it sits there and waits. Ithas your back when you need to pay medical bills. The service is not just the paying of the medical bills but rather the ability to do so. In this way I am always using it.

It seems your way of thinking is that it is more like an account that you put money into and at some point you may or may not take money out.

I am not sure there is a right and wrong way of thinking about it but to me I like thinking that money spent on insurance that I never use is still money well spent because I know when I need it I will have it.

A slight distinction but huge in its effect or one's emotional reaction to insurance.

Good way to put it.

[mredskins]

How about no tax on health food. I bet that won't happen.

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by mredskins

How about no tax on health food. I bet that won't happen.

Maybe you should be proactive and try to make this happen. Write your congressman a letter, find out his point of view on the issue, and ask him why he has that stance.

I believe if your living in Abingdon,MD you would be in the first district.

Here is where you can contact Congressman Wayne Gilchrest
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest - Serving Maryland's First District

Who knows, someone may happen.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by RobH4413

Maybe you should be proactive and try to make this happen. Write your congressman a letter, find out his point of view on the issue, and ask him why he has that stance.

I believe if your living in Abingdon,MD you would be in the first district.

Here is where you can contact Congressman Wayne Gilchrest
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest - Serving Maryland's First District

Who knows, someone may happen.

Done, I will keep you posted. If you order some bean sprouts and there is no tax you will know my work is done.

[RobH4413]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Done, I will keep you posted. If you order some bean sprouts and there is no tax you will know my work is done.

Awesome!, I'm interested to hear if he has anything to say.

[RobH4413]

Some may find it interesting that Montgomery County, MD has banned sales on all food containing trans fats. Way to go rich people.


Montgomery Bans Trans Fats in Restaurants, Markets - washingtonpost.com

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by mredskins

How about no tax on health food. I bet that won't happen.

There are certain foods that are good for you that taken in massive quantities are bad for you. The "obese" people in the world aren't satisfied with 1 extra value meal when they go through the drive through line...they want a lot more.
Why don't people just realize it's about the lack of exercise in this country. Maybe they should make a mandatory 35 hour work week so we have more time to work out? Or we're only allowed to work 4 days a week or something? Then spend the extra tax dollars on a gym membership. If you don't use it, then you need to pay a fee or something? That would give people incentive. Taxing the food won't do a thing to help obesity. NOTHING. So why are they doing it? MONEY. Plain and simple.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by jsarno

There are certain foods that are good for you that taken in massive quantities are bad for you. The "obese" people in the world aren't satisfied with 1 extra value meal when they go through the drive through line...they want a lot more.
Why don't people just realize it's about the lack of exercise in this country. Maybe they should make a mandatory 35 hour work week so we have more time to work out? Or we're only allowed to work 4 days a week or something? Then spend the extra tax dollars on a gym membership. If you don't use it, then you need to pay a fee or something? That would give people incentive. Taxing the food won't do a thing to help obesity. NOTHING. So why are they doing it? MONEY. Plain and simple.

I vote for the extra day off because thats when I do my healthest stuff like running to the frig for a cold one.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I vote for the extra day off because thats when I do my healthest stuff like running to the frig for a cold one.

Hell yeah...I'd rather work 10 hours a day 4 days a week than work 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
Then again, I don't remember the last time I had a 40 hour a week job. All my jobs have been around 48 minimum, couple being about 60 minimum.

A lot of unhealthy eaters and people are unhealthy because they have very little time to sit down and eat healthy...they are always working.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Hell yeah...I'd rather work 10 hours a day 4 days a week than work 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
Then again, I don't remember the last time I had a 40 hour a week job. All my jobs have been around 48 minimum, couple being about 60 minimum.

A lot of unhealthy eaters and people are unhealthy because they have very little time to sit down and eat healthy...they are always working.

That's a super lame excuse.

If you have time to go to these places and order, you have the time to pack a healthy lunch, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper to brown bag it.

Let's not sugar coat things, people are unhealthy eaters because they choose to be.

[firstdown]

I'm for 0 new taxes on anything weather it helps me or not. I'm tired of the goverment wasting my money and the more they have the more they wast.

[firstdown]

I have also heard the argument that smoking and obess people save medicare money because they die younger.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I have also heard the argument that smoking and obess people save medicare money because they die younger.

Incorrect, because even though they go out, they go out with catastrophically expensive cases.