The world is full of “do-gooders” who in the name of the good of the majority indulge in introducing new and wonderful ways of oppressing the minority. The environmental and health fascists who use coercive means – usually taxes and the banning of substances and even the behaviour of others – have converted the oppression of those who don’t think as they do into a fine art.
The two latest health-fascists are members of a so-called expert group, Dan Andersson and Anna Fransson who want to tax people for being fat – for their own good and the good of society of course.
And to rub salt into the wound, tax-payer’s money is used to generate this rubbish.
To stop the runaway cost of Swedish obesity a “fat tax” should be introduced, according to a new report “Calories Cost” released by the Expert Group on Public Finance (ESO) on Thursday and written by Dan Andersson and Anna Fransson
They estimate that the cost to the public sector, in terms of healthcare and social insurance due to obesity was 15 billion kronor in 2003, a figure that could rise by between 40 and about 80 percent by 2020, according to the report.
The authors consider that there are good reasons for the government to do something about the weight trap. “Fat taxes” could be invested in, for example, bike lanes and general public health surveys of adults.
Health costs could be minimised further by introducing a birth tax and perhaps with the tax increasing for every year of survival. This could even encourage people to commit suicide once they retire and their economic burden becomes too heavy – for the good of the majority of course. It would solve the pensions problem and the ageing problem as well.
Perhaps it is time to introduce legislation prohibiting the fascism of “do-gooders” and banning all expert groups.
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