Should shops have a set of scales at the counter so fat people can have a 'fatty tax' added?
374262
as long as skinny people pay less... im all for it
1023554
I doubt you would be able to use it in a shop, but a bank would change it. Go to the bank of England's web site and have a look.
950796
Yes but that is how it works here in Wis.  YOu might just get a fat check soon!
981410
Obese people are people too, but yes, the fact that they are using the handicap spaces is irritating.  Another thing is, if you follow the logic, alcohalics and drug addicts could get a handicap space as well because like morbidly fat people, they are living the results of their choices.
231870
You can if you have enough fat people in there with you.
840374
The easiest income tax system would be to throw it out and implement a national sales tax.  Tax everything but food at a rate somewhere between 1 and 5 percent and people wouldn't even have to do taxes.  The only people doing taxes would be business owners and they are already doing state sales taxes, at least in the states that have sales tax.
666884
Yes, we should do away with it. You are right, if you are a muscular person, you may show up as overweight or obese by the BMI standards. We need to find a way to accurately use the muscle to fat ratio for each individual person, instead of a set table you plug numbers into. Some scales have the electrodes that you stand on that are supposed to send a current through your body to measure fat, but I tried two different scales and they read completely different.
1003307
California tried a "junk food" tax back in the 1980s.  It didn't last long. Nobody could really decide what was "junk" food.  Of course the junk food manufacturers helped confuse the issue with their PR firms working overtime clouding up the common sense opinions of what is and what is not junk.\n\nA fast food tax won't happen, and if it does, it won't last long.
451676
You don't say where you're from but in the UK you don't need a prescription to buy them. You can even buy them on Ebay! If you have a medical need for one (diabetes for example) you don't have to pay VAT (tax) on them, but you would need something from a doctor to prove this.
177156
Yes. All tips should be 100% tax free. Individual people paying other individual people for private services have already paid taxes on that money a dozen times over.
497064
To get a big fat check!
226960
I do think fast food franchises should be regulated by some organism like the FDA.  They should at least be force to come up with healthier menus.
1073928
I agree that we should tax unhealthy food, but the money should not go to health care for people who have abused their bodies by eating crap.  The money should go to lowering the price of healthy foods.
916342
I work in a shop and parents should keep their children on a leash or out of the store if they will not control them. I am sick of hearing "don't do that or the lady will smack you", meaning me. Smack your own damn kids, don't make me out to be the monster here. And yes, if my kids needed a slap when they were in a shop when they were little, they got one. If I can do it, so can they.\nPeople have NO idea how to behave when they are shopping, they open boxes (usually tearing it) then buy the box behind because the one they opened is damaged, they pick stuff up then put it back in the wrong place ( so the next customer demands that £10 item for the £3 label on the shelf where they found it), and they treat the staff appallingly.\nParents and inconsiderate shoppers should pay for all breakages and damages, you are absolutely right. Also, bring back national service, but forget the army, 2 months in a shop on shop salary every couple of years would be enough to show people what it is really like for those of us who do this work rather than be on unemployment. The salary is rubbish, the hours are antisocial (who wants to work weekends?) and we don't deserve the abuse we take.
473807
well first i do i agree that obesity is not a good thing in any way . America has a problem and the first step is to acknowledge this problem . this is not cool on any way or something to be proud about . however i do not think that by judging them so harshly ur making any difference . u could tell them to star living healthy a do exercise instead u go and judge them . ur attitude is not positive and not helpful at all . people is important for what they are inside and ur showing a really ugly side of u . so i hope u change ur attitude just like Americans should change theirs . think about it .
304702
What a hum dinger. both people beat them selves up about how they look, but ultimately it goes back to wehter you can get in a bikini or underware or your bathroom. Fat people have not much, so they should be alowed to. Their lives are hell i don't think it should be an issue.
609260
I think any activity that involves fat people exerting them self's would be funny. We would have to chant songs like\nYou fat bastard, you fat bastard who eat all the pies!!!