Guest guest Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 Hi all, I was being facetious about taxing pounds and saving on sanitation. Didn't mean to offend anyone!!! Still.... Maybe they should reward those who exercise by subsidizing yoga and the health clubs, and lower insurance for those with good blood numbers. Subsidize healthy foods and tax junk food. etc ad inf. With the present corporate mindset, it'll never happen. MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 It's not crazy... Cigna just announce more proactive approach to treating pre-obese conditions. Aetna, has been pretty proactive about preventative medicine... I am not optimistic about getting folks to pay their way but it's the only answer I can think of.... they tax the snot out of cigarettes, why not tax calories after X per day (OK not that easy to manage). Problem is not corporate mindset as much as (fat) people not willing to deal with reality. JR -----Original Message----- From: Mambo Mambo [mailto:mambomambo@...] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:12 PM Subject: [ ] Mc s Hi all, I was being facetious about taxing pounds and saving on sanitation. Didn't mean to offend anyone!!! Still.... Maybe they should reward those who exercise by subsidizing yoga and the health clubs, and lower insurance for those with good blood numbers. Subsidize healthy foods and tax junk food. etc ad inf. With the present corporate mindset, it'll never happen. MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Hi, I lived for several years in Finland. I now live in the nearby Estonia. The Finns for decades placed a very heavy tax on alcohol to curb drinking. And, of course, many countries, including Finland, placed a heavy tax on cigarettes to curtail smoking. Why not place a heavy tax on junk food: Big Mac's, potato chips, various processed foods etc. to discourage its use. The tax could be graduated and dependent upon the relative unhealthiness of the food item. This would prompt consumers to avoid the higher cost/less healthy goods, and the producers to reformulate their products to lower the costs/increase their healthiness to a level more conducive to sales. Incidentally, the Finns had to decrease the price of alcohol because of Estonia entering the EU last May. The Finns, also in the customs free EU, can now import almost unlimited cheap Estonian liquor duty free. As a result of the price drop/unlimited import of Estonian liquor, the murder rate in Finland went up almost 20%, and drunk driving and other accident rates increased substantially. Rad --- In , " " <crjohnr@b...> wrote: > It's not crazy... Cigna just announce more proactive approach to treating pre-obese conditions. Aetna, has been pretty proactive > about preventative medicine... > > I am not optimistic about getting folks to pay their way but it's the only answer I can think of.... > they tax the snot out of cigarettes, why not tax calories after X per day (OK not that easy to manage). > > Problem is not corporate mindset as much as (fat) people not willing to deal with reality. > > JR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mambo Mambo [mailto:mambomambo@h...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:12 PM > > Subject: [ ] Mc s > > > > Hi all, > I was being facetious about taxing pounds and saving on sanitation. Didn't > mean to offend anyone!!! > Still.... Maybe they should reward those who exercise by subsidizing yoga > and the health clubs, and lower insurance for those with good blood numbers. > Subsidize healthy foods and tax junk food. etc ad inf. > With the present corporate mindset, it'll never happen. > > > MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Yes, including high energy/low nutrient foods in with the sin taxes already on the books seems logical to us, but I suspect you would get a loud yell from the poor and skinny who like Mickey D.... I suspect this will become moot when they introduce their zero calorie Big McPlasticMac... JR -----Original Message----- From: radioreceiver2003 [mailto:radioreceiver2003@...] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:07 PM Subject: [ ] Re: Mc s Hi, I lived for several years in Finland. I now live in the nearby Estonia. The Finns for decades placed a very heavy tax on alcohol to curb drinking. And, of course, many countries, including Finland, placed a heavy tax on cigarettes to curtail smoking. Why not place a heavy tax on junk food: Big Mac's, potato chips, various processed foods etc. to discourage its use. The tax could be graduated and dependent upon the relative unhealthiness of the food item. This would prompt consumers to avoid the higher cost/less healthy goods, and the producers to reformulate their products to lower the costs/increase their healthiness to a level more conducive to sales. Incidentally, the Finns had to decrease the price of alcohol because of Estonia entering the EU last May. The Finns, also in the customs free EU, can now import almost unlimited cheap Estonian liquor duty free. As a result of the price drop/unlimited import of Estonian liquor, the murder rate in Finland went up almost 20%, and drunk driving and other accident rates increased substantially. Rad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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