As If You Couldn't Get Any Worse
When I say the words "Nanny State" what do you think of? If you said Britain like me, then you are correct. And that Nanny State is getting worse by wanting to create a "fat tax".
Tony is right, the idea is too Nanny State, but the Nannies don't care, they want to protect us from ourselves. If they could get away with it, they would stick everyone in a box so no one would get hurt, they want that much control over everyone. The Nannies are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they are doing it because they are control freaks, pure and simple. Nobody should enjoy life and take risks, the should be controlled is the Nanny motto, and they are pushing for this idea every day. How our cousins the Brits could allow this to happen is beyond me, because although we are approaching a Nanny State (thank you Leftards and Nannies), we Americans still believe in the freedom of choice.
If they want to raise revenue, instead of a "fat tax", they should enact a "stupid asshole tax" which would generate a lot more money for the Gov't. In fact the Gov't would have to pay that tax too.
Mr Minority
Experts are putting pressure on the Government to introduce a "fat tax" on unhealthy foods, saying it could save thousands of lives.
A study from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham claims that taxing food containing lots of fat, salt and sugar would prevent more than 3,000 deaths a year from heart attacks and strokes.
However, while it would save the NHS £6bn a year, it would put an extra 67p a week on food bills, which would total some £2bn annually across the UK.
The author of the report, Dr Mike Rayner, told Sky News: "There's an overabundance of cheap, bad food in this country and we need to tax it, to make it more expensive, to make people switch to healthy foods.
"If we do have a tax on unhealthy food it will raise money for the Inland Revenue and a good way of spending that would be to subsidise healthy food."
The idea was previously rejected by Tony Blair, who said it was too "nanny state" in 2004.
Tony is right, the idea is too Nanny State, but the Nannies don't care, they want to protect us from ourselves. If they could get away with it, they would stick everyone in a box so no one would get hurt, they want that much control over everyone. The Nannies are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they are doing it because they are control freaks, pure and simple. Nobody should enjoy life and take risks, the should be controlled is the Nanny motto, and they are pushing for this idea every day. How our cousins the Brits could allow this to happen is beyond me, because although we are approaching a Nanny State (thank you Leftards and Nannies), we Americans still believe in the freedom of choice.
If they want to raise revenue, instead of a "fat tax", they should enact a "stupid asshole tax" which would generate a lot more money for the Gov't. In fact the Gov't would have to pay that tax too.
Mr Minority
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