OK, so technically it isn’t tax, but Alabama wants to charge its fat employees $25/month for insurance (it is currently free). Does that seem a little discriminatory, mean, and just downright wrong? When is the government going to stop trying to control people’s lives?
I wonder what would happen if people in general (and the government in particular) would use patience, love, and kindness to help others change their lives for the better instead of always thinking of new punishements for those who don’t conform?
Why is it so hard for people to realize that rights and freedoms are not pulled away all at once? It starts with small things like this and then, when no one objects, the government puts more restrictions and punishments on us until we have no freedom left at all.
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Well, I agree for once with the “tax”
The average american consumes 3800 calories as well as 2 sodas per day. That’s is just idiotic.
Everybody that is obese will become or be already a huge financial burden to the medical insurance system. They set themselves up for typw 2 diabetics and a host of other risks. Cholesterol, heart decease. Should I pay rediculously high premiums because of them. NO!!!!! It should be like life insurance. The worse your lifestyle is, the higher your premium. Why should the system pick up the tab for smokers when they are diagnosed with a typical smoking caused decease. Let them pay it out of there own pocket or have them in a certain risk based premium group.
Yes, some people have medical issues. And the system should deal with that but most people just live like slobs.
I agree with concernedmom. When will we realize that compulsion is not the answer to getting people to do what is right?
What a private person and company do on their own is one thing, but to use the force of government to compel someone leads to more and more government control.