Should people who are too skinny be taxed?

Former Observer

Serious question. Being too skinny causes many health issues which we in turn, as Irish taxpayers with normal BMI, end up paying for. People who refuse to maintain a healthy body weight are also a negative influence on children. I suggest a tiered system whereby if you are either too heavy or too skinny you should pay more in tax. Some of the folks wandering around look like the walking dead. Sunken eyes, frail little wrists, no flesh on their faces.

M5

Haha, nice try!

branie2

No

Cork Trucker

Too skinny = Taxed?

Too fat = taxed?

Children too fat = taxed?

Should this thread be taxed for such a silly proposal?

jam_mac_jam

No because we do not care about the health of skinny people only that of fat people.

KungPao

No way, fatso.

Former Observer

To be clear, this is more of a question for the people who think that overweight people should be taxed. Skinny people are more accident prone and tend to have issues with their bones as they are not eating nutrient dense food. They are also a negative influence on children. I feel that people both above and below their ideal BMI should be taxed. It's not fair on the rest of us.

Yurt2

Here's what I've learned from After Hours: in Ireland, everybody hates everybody else. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, there's a significant percentage of the population who hates you and what you stand for one reason or another. We're an angry little island when it comes down to it.

Former Observer

Yurt! wrote: »

Here's what I've learned from After Hours: in Ireland, everybody hates everybody else. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, there's a significant percentage of the population who hates you and what you stand for one reason or another. We're an angry little island when it comes down to it.

STFU

Yurt2

Former Observer wrote: »

STFU

Stick on some Enya and have some chamomile tea. It'll take the edge off.

Cork Trucker

Yurt! wrote: »

Stick on some Enya and have some chamomile tea. It'll take the edge off.

FYP

is_that_so

Lock 'em up and force feed them till they're at an acceptable weight!

Yurt2

Cork Trucker wrote: »

FYP

Thnx. I think I'll run a bubble bath and light the old Yankee candle.

my3cents

Former Observer wrote: »

To be clear, this is more of a question for the people who think that overweight people should be taxed. Skinny people are more accident prone and tend to have issues with their bones as they are not eating nutrient dense food. They are also a negative influence on children. I feel that people both above and below their ideal BMI should be taxed. It's not fair on the rest of us.

Yeah maybe skinny people are more accident prone but thats because they are actually moving about unlike fat people who sit about filling their faces.

jaxxx

Blatant discrimination. Let's just tax everyone for being alive!


Wait that's still discriminating. Let's tax those that are dead too!

Cork Trucker

Yurt! wrote: »

Thnx. I think I'll run a bubble bath and light the old Yankee candle.

I'd wait til tonight for that, 10.40 in the morning wouldn't be the best time of day for that.

Sir Guy who smiles

Former Observer wrote: »

To be clear, this is more of a question for the people who think that overweight people should be taxed. Skinny people are more accident prone and tend to have issues with their bones as they are not eating nutrient dense food. They are also a negative influence on children. I feel that people both above and below their ideal BMI should be taxed. It's not fair on the rest of us.

Do you have any data to back up this statement............fat boy?

Wheety

Don't you hate pants!?

Yurt2

Wheety wrote: »

Don't you hate pants!?

They ought to tax pants more. They cause chafing, and we all know the negative effect that has on HSE waiting times. Why should I bloody have to pay for scroungers that insist on wearing pants. Should send them all to the glue factory.

Pissartist

fat or skinny doesn't bother me in the slightest,
smelling of b o is the worst offence in my opinion.

InTheShadows

We need to start taxing people who exercise more as they breath too fast using up more oxygen and also sweat excessively causing them to use more towels that have to be machine washed.

Neyite

A thin girl turned you down at the weekend, didn't she?

InTheShadows

Pissartist wrote: »

fat or skinny doesn't bother me in the slightest,
smelling of b o is the worst offence in my opinion.

Bad breath should be punishable by death.

Plumbthedepths

Cork Trucker wrote:

Should this thread be taxed for such a silly proposal?

No just the OP and his counterpart on the tax the fat threads. The sooner the school holidays are over the better.

Former Observer

Former Observer wrote: »

Serious question.

Not suitable to AHs. Fail.

antix80

People should be able to live their lives as they choose.

The best the government can do is instruct hospitals to prioritise public treatment for patients who have not made poor lifestyle choices. So, for example, people who binge-drink would be refused liver transplants, overweight wouldn't get knee replacements, smokers wouldn't be treated for lung conditions.

Skinny people typically won't have as much a strain on the health services as overweight. You need to be severely underweight before it affects your health.

Former Observer

Nice to see a broad consensus on this. I agree with others here who think that if you are going to tax obese people then you should also be taxing skinny people who don't eat nutrient dense food. Nothing more depressing then when you're wandering around town on a sunny day with your shades on eating an ice cream and some skeleton walks past. Cheek bones protruding through their face, teeth probably falling out of their mouth, no muscle on their arms, and a dozy vapid look on their face due to eating low quality anti-nutrients on a regular basis. I especially hate when it's a child and all they are being fed is the odd packet of toffee popcorn or a bottle of sparkling water.

Plumbthedepths

antix80 wrote:

The best the government can do is instruct hospitals to prioritise public treatment for patients who have not made poor lifestyle choices. So, for example, people who binge-drink would be refused liver transplants, overweight wouldn't get knee replacements, smokers wouldn't be treated for lung conditions.

So you're suggesting denying care, thankfully it won't happen. As most medical professionals would ignore such instructions.

blue note

Yurt! wrote: »

Here's what I've learned from After Hours: in Ireland, everybody hates everybody else. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, there's a significant percentage of the population who hates you and what you stand for one reason or another. We're an angry little island when it comes down to it.

Well, if we hate everyone, does that make after hours the most egalitarian place on earth?

PinotNero

I suggest a re-reg tax.

RobbingBandit

Might I add no fat chicks

topper75

And if they don't pay?

Useless locking them up as they would just squeeze between the cell bars.

Think it through OP and come back.

Pinch Flat

Former Observer wrote: »

Serious question. Being too skinny causes many health issues which we in turn, as Irish taxpayers with normal BMI, end up paying for. People who refuse to maintain a healthy body weight are also a negative influence on children. I suggest a tiered system whereby if you are either too heavy or too skinny you should pay more in tax. Some of the folks wandering around look like the walking dead. Sunken eyes, frail little wrists, no flesh on their faces.

Former Observer wrote: »

To be clear, this is more of a question for the people who think that overweight people should be taxed. Skinny people are more accident prone and tend to have issues with their bones as they are not eating nutrient dense food. They are also a negative influence on children. I feel that people both above and below their ideal BMI should be taxed. It's not fair on the rest of us.

Nice trolling OP. Any chance there's some peer reviewed medical studies to back up any of these claims?

Outlaw Pete

Thigh gap envy.

Lackadaisical

People who are underweight generally have underlying reasons why. That could be eating disorders which are very serious mental health issues or, in many cases it can be a result of various illnesses that impact digestive systems like ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, issues with malabsorption due to cancer, ongoing medical treatments like chemotherapy etc etc etc.

It’s really not much of a subject to be joked about on AH

Gimme A Pound

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Might I add no fat chicks

Springfield Ballet's door notice: No fat chicks

Springfield Opera's door notice: No thin chicks

Deebles McBeebles

Lackadaisical wrote: »

It’s really not much of a subject to be joked about on AH

What else should people not joke about? If you give us a full list I'm sure the mods will stick in in the charter.

Xodar

Former Observer wrote: »

To be clear, this is more of a question for the people who think that overweight people should be taxed. Skinny people are more accident prone and tend to have issues with their bones as they are not eating nutrient dense food. They are also a negative influence on children. I feel that people both above and below their ideal BMI should be taxed. It's not fair on the rest of us.

So, skinny people tend to be more accident prone and bone issues...care to back that up with evidence.

The people described in the op sound a lot like heroin addicts and pay no tax at all so thread makes no sense.

Xodar

Former Observer wrote: »

Nice to see a broad consensus on this. I agree with others here who think that if you are going to tax obese people then you should also be taxing skinny people who don't eat nutrient dense food. Nothing more depressing then when you're wandering around town on a sunny day with your shades on eating an ice cream and some skeleton walks past. Cheek bones protruding through their face, teeth probably falling out of their mouth, no muscle on their arms, and a dozy vapid look on their face due to eating low quality anti-nutrients on a regular basis. I especially hate when it's a child and all they are being fed is the odd packet of toffee popcorn or a bottle of sparkling water.

Shît, Shît, Shît...... I just realised what you're doing...


Good one ;D

Lackadaisical

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

What else should people not joke about? If you give us a full list I'm sure the mods will stick in in the charter.

Well it’s pretty low to have a thread mocking people with serious physical and mental illnesses.

Whether it’s against the rules or the forum or not I don’t know or care but it’s tasteless.

frag420

They do say that inside every fat person there is a skinny person trying to get out...

Should they be double taxed then?

Lackadaisical

Lackadaisical wrote: »

but it’s tasteless.

A bit like the food thin smokers eat.

Gimme A Pound

I see hardly anyone who's underweight. On the extremely rare occasions that I do, it's a very shocking sight.

Atoms for Peace

I prefer to be described as wiry op.

topper75

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I hear the cycling forum has a distinct lack of humour if that's what you're after.

He he there are paraplegic orphans out there dying of cancer that have a greater ability to laugh at themselves.

Sir Guy who smiles

frag420 wrote: »

They do say that inside every fat person there is a skinny person trying to get out...

That they have eaten.