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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: J P Sousa on February 05, 2015, 01:08:25 PM

Title: Gruber Wants to Tax Americans by Weight
Post by: J P Sousa on February 05, 2015, 01:08:25 PM: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/obamacare-architect-gruber-wants-to-tax-americans-by-weight/
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Jonathan Gruber, long credited as the architect of ObamaCare, once discussed the necessity of taxing fat people by body weight in order to fight obesity.

â€œUltimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,â€ Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010, just months after helping design ObamaCare with the president in the Oval Office and during the period in which he was under contract as an Obama administration consultant.

I wonder if the DU'ers are on to this one.
Here is how I picture them;
(http://funmozar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fat-girls-in-bikinis-323x300.jpg)
Title: Re: Gruber Wants to Tax Americans by Weight
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 05, 2015, 01:24:07 PM: It will never happen....there are more fat democrats than there are fat republicans.
Title: Re: Gruber Wants to Tax Americans by Weight
Post by: thundley4 on February 05, 2015, 01:46:41 PM: There are parts of Obamacare that allow companies to charge fat people, smokers and a few other things affected by lifestyle choices higher fees for insurance. Since Obamacare was ruled a tax, it is a "fat tax".
Title: Re: Gruber Wants to Tax Americans by Weight
Post by: obumazombie on February 05, 2015, 01:47:47 PM: Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 05, 2015, 01:24:07 PM
It will never happen....there are more fat democrats than there are fat republicans.

Exactly why it will happen.
Libs don't pay taxes.