Because restaurant critics are well-qualified to decide tax and health policy

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Proposal to minimize tax for unhealthily thin people

Comments

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Heh, that tax would never work. I can sort of see that it is a problem for the NHS, but then again so is drinking and smoking, and that problem hasn't gone away no matter how much you tax people. If they taxed me based on weight I'd probably get a discount, the way I'm going! o.O

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Anorexia amongst young women is also a huge problem, and sets up all sorts of problems in later life - lack of fertility, may be contributory to later osteoporeosis, smoking addiction, that sort of thing. I don't see Giles CuntCoren putting a tax on the image industry to compensate for that.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

*nods* Heh, never mind putting a tax on the image industry, try taxing the bloke who invented the BMI in the first place. I just ranted on my journal about a BMI chart that dubbed me 'fat' at 10 stone and 5'3, which, had I not had my head screwed on, might have led to all kinds of complexes about my body image. But it didn't, so that's OK. :)