Well i called it a while back. On todays news, my mother noticed 2 seperate states are looking to put "fatty taxes" on soda, beer and fast foods... in their attempt to force us to slim down.

Well, they are desperate for money and they know that eating habits are resistant to change. Most people just walk down the grocery aisle like robots throwing the same foods in their cart week after week. They probably won't even notice an extra tax because most people don't look at their grocery tape that closely.

Well, I think that any proposed tax should only be applied to the "obese".

Every store should install an obesity meter at the checkstand and taxes should be assessed accordingly. Of course, I will pass, because I weigh 105 pounds. I could start a new business, grocery shopper for the fat.

Woo hoo!

What's really bizarre is that partial smoking bans have been declared unconstitutional in the past, not because they discriminated against smokers, but because they had exemptions. Many of the bans that exempted bars, restaurants, race tracks, casinos, etc., were overturned because they let a few businesses escape the rules, while enforcing the rules on most others.

Was listening to Schnitt on the way to do a little food shopping when he was on about a bill to tax methane from animals... a farm tax so to speak.

What an idea! It's even better than taxing smoking. Just affix fart meters to all the cows and start a whole new revenue stream. It's an involuntary behavior, so there would be no way to keep the cows from doing it.