Why Should I pay for Fat People !!

Cork24

The Royal College of Physicians has called on the Government to introduce a 20% tax on sugar sweetened drinks, including sports drinks, in the Budget to tackle obesity.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1007/478845-sugar-tax/


obesity is becoming a big problem in Ireland, with fast food becoming more cheaper then healthy food so many people are in debt and can't afford a healthy lifestyle..

But for people who are living a healthy Lifestyle and do enjoy some sweets once in a while why should we suffer.

Fat kids will still be Fat even if you add a 20% Tax on Sweets, I said it once i'll say it again,, We need to Send Fat kids and their parents to Camps,

Send them to Judo, Soccer, Rugby Camps let them Burn off the Fat and learn about Nutrition.. What is the point in adding a 20% tax thinking that will put a stop to obesity in Ireland it will not just like smokers they will always find money to buy their daily Bar of Chocolate

wazky

People are so fat we need two threads on this.

jimgoose

A "Budget to tackle Obesity", be the lord Harry. Any chance of a budget to tackle gawbeen schoolteachers with Machiavellian tendencies??

draiochtanois

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biko

wazky wrote: »

People are so fat we need two threads on this.

Double-wide thread

oldyouth

Chubby chasing is a very specific fetish, that's why you have to pay extra

Cork24

Yes they want to add another 20% ontop of the 23 %

kowloon

Cork24 wrote: »

Fat kids will still be Fat even if you add a 20% Tax on Sweets, I said it once i'll say it again,, We need to Send Fat kids and their parents to Camps,

Some sort of camp where they could concentrate on losing weight?

super_furry

You'd be as well to tax couches at 20%. Nonsense, money grabbing sh1te.

Rosier

Healthy food is heaper than junk food

old hippy

Ye seemed to have no qualms in supporting the fat cats for years. Of course, it's easier to have a go at lesser mortals, eh?

jimgoose

Rosier wrote: »

Healthy food is heaper than junk food

Yes, yes it is. Mrs. Goose and I have developed a habit of having a big feed of sh!te from McDonalds on Friday evenings, and I am continually amazed at the price of it!

LoonyLovegood

*facepalm*

Preface to this rant with I'm fat. True story. Currently doing something about it, but I'm fat.

There's no point in just taxing everything. Give teenagers PROPER nutrition advice, don't leave it stuck to Home Ec classes for junior cycle. Have a weekly double period about cooking and healthy food and general life advice. Teenagers leave school every year not knowing anything. I've just started my second year of college. When I left secondary school, I didn't know how to pay a bill, how to set up a direct debit or how to cook anything bar porridge and pasta. It's not that it was lack of want or trying, I had never been taught it and I grew up in a house with two parents who did shift work, so whoever would be in the house that morning would put on the dinner - usually a stew or casserole or the like.

We have a serious obesity problem. But where we start tackling it is in schools. In fifth class we got to go to the staff room to bake cupcakes. We didn't do any healthy cooking. We were eleven, we could have been doing stirfry or something similar. Instead of the bull lifeskills my sister's school offers (where they're taught about puberty, social pressures and get a week of sex ed...this is for 17 year olds), give them proper skills. How to set up a bank account, how to cook, how to budget. Give them proper skills to be able to live. I'm able to cook now, but it was a long first year where I lived off noodles and attempted (usually awful) cooking. I see it now, I've taught one of my housemates how to cook properly. It takes a while, but it's worth it.

canadianwoman

No matter how much the sugary drinks and sodas cost people will still buy them........ and for that matter are they going to tax orange juice too? There are a load of sugars in that stuff too....albeit natural sugars but it is still high in sugars (as allfruit juices are).

Don't believe me? Get yourself a blood glucose meter and do a little testing on yourself.

hardCopy

I drank a whole litre of Lucozade on Saturday morning during a 22 mile run.

Please Minister Reilly, save me from obesity!

Cork24

old hippy wrote: »

Ye seemed to have no qualms in supporting the fat cats for years. Of course, it's easier to have a go at lesser mortals, eh?

Fat cats with the likes of Cowen ? who i am stocked that lived so long, and our old Health Minster Mary Harney with our husband from FAS.. No i dont support them nor will i ever support people like them,

I'll be more left wing, Cheaper Work Force Cheaper Economy

canadianwoman

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Teenagers leave school every year not knowing anything. I've just started my second year of college. When I left secondary school, I didn't know how to pay a bill, how to set up a direct debit or how to cook anything ...

...give them proper skills. How to set up a bank account, how to cook, how to budget. Give them proper skills to be able to live.

That is almost word for word what my youngest son was telling me a couple of weeks ago. He graduated highschool but he said they never taught him anything useful that you need in day to day life.

zarquon

Would those advocating an obesity tax also advocate an alcholism tax? Seems like a double standard to want to increase taxes on sugary drinks due to health concerns but not want to advocate the same to alcohol.

Surveyor11

What exactly is the 20% tax going to be used for?

keeponhurling

Alcohol is already taxed, and drinks in ireland cost way more than overseas for that reason.
You don't want to kill the pub business off altogether

jimgoose

hardCopy wrote: »

I drank a whole litre of Lucozade on Saturday morning during a 22 mile run.

Please Minister Reilly, save me from obesity!

While we're on the subject, that reminds me - does anyone else think Reilly looks like an ageing bare-knuck boxer, like Big Joe Joyce for example??

darkpagandeath

Surveyor11 wrote: »

What exactly is the 20% tax going to be used for?

Paying for the council like that household charge was for oh wait .

jimgoose

Surveyor11 wrote: »

What exactly is the 20% tax going to be used for?

Prize fund for Big Jim Reilly's next prize-fight, bass! :cool:

Surveyor11

zarquon wrote: »

Would those advocating an obesity tax also advocate an alcholism tax? Seems like a double standard to want to increase taxes on sugary drinks due to health concerns but not want to advocate the same to alcohol.

Because the vintners, beer companies and political class are inextricably linked in this country. What other country on earth would you see a government minister coming out in support of a 'national day' sponsored by a beer company, as we recently saw? Cut drink driving - easy just blitz pub car parks...oh wait.... pub sales falling? no problem, just lobby the government for an off-licence levy.

LizT

Thread here already