Tax Fat People...not sugary beverages

http://lose30inthirty.com Fitness Personality Rocco Castelano wants to know why NY Governor Paterson doesn't have the balls to tax the very reason there is an obesity problem...fat people! Taxing sugary beverages will do the same thing as banning trans fats did for obesity...absolutely nothing!

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• NY Governor
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• rocco castellano
• stupid tax
• diets
• dietitians
• sugary beverage tax
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[askrocco]

Just like the Lottery money is being used for funding education. Why do we need to tax a corporation or someone just to raise money to treat something that can be easily treated by by community support, exercise and education.

This tax will never find it's way to where it would need to go.

[menderfire9]

Another crazy person. Why not just tax everyone who gets sick or who looks sick, after all most sicknesses R lifestyle related (diet, exercise & not enough sleep) We could tax people who R loud mouth 2 because they R air-wave polluters & they make many people sick. Tax bullies & people who do not understand that obesity is a complex social, psychological as well as physical problem & not a matter of poor character nor is is always about poor discipline.

I think you should apologize big time!!

[askrocco]

When you stop feeling sorry for yourself and stop making excuses. Then and only then will I apologize. Everyone wants to say that it is such a "complex" problem. The only problem is that "Fat" people are becoming the majority and have a louder voice now. No one has self control anymore and most think that they should be entitled to stay fat and be a burden. what needs to change is your attitude and the attitude that allows "fat" to have a voice. "Poor Discipline" is part of the problem.

[BurnsideStudios08]

Why should he show respect for fat people if they don't have respect for their own bodies.

[Chapas45]

the fatties need to pay higher taxes; they're a serious burden on the economy.

[Whocares05050]

If we are discriminating on "fat people" we should also tax people who are too skinny, too muscular, too stupid, too smart, too white, too black, to liberal, and have too many idiotic videos like this one. 18% BMI? really? over 80% of americans dont even have that... im not even obese...its all about money. they only want more money. they should tax the hell out of gym apes like yourself.

[getrealthen]

@Chapas45

Yes, and so are the skinny ones that have Bulimia, and you and I are paying for their dental care..HUM?????

[getrealthen]

Hey, one area of Africa, I won't mention where it is, but everybody is healthy-know what I mean? Get it? Didn't somebody we all know just visit that country? HUM...

So, I did not vote for someone dumb, and believe me, things are going to get a lot dumber.....we are going to lived in such a controlled socialized world like never before. Besides all the fat people that live around me are MOSTLY African American. I think that some people in DC look like they have face deformities...

[UberNetworkGeek]

people who think that the government is taxing soda becuase they want to fight obesity are nieve. The money is needed for government spending, they looked at how many people are drinking soda and said "man... I wish we could tax soda" and then they found a way to try.

[IamYou86]

Not all fat people over eat. There are many conditions and medications that cause a person to become overweight. There are those people who simply can't stop shoving food in their pie holes. How much money will it cost to sort out those who are shovelers and who isn't?

[tatomuck18]

I dont drink soda or any sickly sugary sweets! I eat vegetables, drink water and live a healthy life. Soda SHOULD be TAXED high enough to stop these slobs that cant control themselves! Tax it $30 a can. I dont care cause I dont drink soda.

[jdipoal1]

Health care reform is all about money. Just as it is simple to inform an obese patient that eating

. The

taxes from tobacco, alcohol along with new federal taxes on unhealthy

fats,sugars and fructose in foods and beverages should pay for health care

exclusively.

This will not only pay for the health care of every American but assist in

motivating some to eat healthier at a lower cost.

[itube141]

overweightness kills more than

smoking, drinking, weed (LOL) so why not tax overweight people if the issue is heath

[dustinjr1993]

although your statement sounds discriminate as you said i could imagine this happening because the government taxes you on almost everything! if they put a tax on energy drinks the money would flow in like a tsunami because almost all my peers drink energy drinks on a daily bases! is it good for them? i think now! should we tax it? if we do we might as well tax alcohol, sugary beverages, junk food ect the list goes on! bottom line i think taxes only solve money problems and thats it!