Remember all those jokes about how if the government is treating smokers like Jews in the middle ages, it would only be a matter of time before they'd be taxing fatty foods?
Obesity is an enormous problem all around the Western world and loads heavily the health care, so as long the society pays the bill it is perfectly right also punish from unhealthy lifestyle and self-caused problems. The only problem here is that the Danes have wrong target. Instead of fats they ought to be taxing carbs.
They're uncertain what to tax, really. But they figure, as long as they're doing something, they can put off any action about that whole rather horrid father/uncle/mother business that they know they should be getting around to...
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It isn't the fat, it is the carbohydrates.
Obesity is an enormous problem all around the Western world and loads heavily the health care, so as long the society pays the bill it is perfectly right also punish from unhealthy lifestyle and self-caused problems. The only problem here is that the Danes have wrong target. Instead of fats they ought to be taxing carbs.
They're uncertain what to tax, really. But they figure, as long as they're doing something, they can put off any action about that whole rather horrid father/uncle/mother business that they know they should be getting around to...
Anonymous: You have a good point, but only is we are livestock and not free men.
And I presume that by "society" you mean "the state".
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