gvcspecks's avatar
I will start by saying, again, the doctors put this idea forward. So it isn't a government conspiracy theory for total control.
Also in the UK the gov. pays for our healthcare, obese people suffer more ailments so the government pays for there treatment, if they need a mobility scooter, benefits if they can't work, help in the home if they are severely overweight. So by reducing consumption of unhealthy foods they could hope to reduce expenditure in some sectors and increase elsewhere.
maddmatt's avatar
The doctors do not make tax policies. Doctors thought it would be cool to give twins various diseases to see how different treatments affected them. Doctors should not be making choices on liberty. They should operate within the constraints of liberty for all.

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Also in the UK the gov. pays for our healthcare, obese people suffer more ailments so the government pays for there treatment, if they need a mobility scooter, benefits if they can't work, help in the home if they are severely overweight. So by reducing consumption of unhealthy foods they could hope to reduce expenditure in some sectors and increase elsewhere.
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This is exactly the mentality that nationalized healthcare brings, and is the basis for my argument here: [link]

You proved my point with your statement. Nationalizing healthcare gives government the power to dictate the free rights of individuals to live how they want when it only should be effecting themselves. Moreover, you place a few non-elected people (board of doctors) responsible for restricting the liberty of everyone.

Again, why stop at fast food or soda? Why not make the one approved diet for all and any wavering is unlawful? Why not make sofas illegal? Your television only works for 30 minutes a day. You only get 30 minutes of video games and 15 of those have to be brain-enriching puzzles. Homosexuality is gone. In fact, sex at all is gone unless it is at a government approved lab and can be monitored so disease transmission is minimized. Cars that go over 40kph will be outlawed so traffic accidents will go down.

People should have the liberty without penalty to choose what they want to eat. People should have the liberty to sell whatever food they want without unfair taxes being levied on their business simply because uptight liberals don't approve of your choices. Making the individual responsible for their health makes the liberty of their own choices reasonable.
gvcspecks's avatar
Once again, the doctors are not making the choices, there are not imposing the tax. They have just presented the IDEA of a tax. I haven't even heard anything about the gov. debating it.

Yeah I won't read that link I don't care enough.

They are hardly dictating how we live, they are making decisions to use money as effectively as possible because the economy is a shithole at the moment. The doctors are not responsible for putting taxes in place, and once again, they only offered the idea of a tax.

Nice little over the top paragraph there, just taking things a little too far.
maddmatt's avatar
Yes. It is the government who applies the policy. Back to square one of the analogy.

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Yeah I won't read that link I don't care enough.
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No worries. It just predicts the argument you presented in your OP.

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They are hardly dictating how we live,
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Saying what you can and can't drink. What you can and can't eat. What you can and can't breathe into your lungs. Not sure how this isn't dictating how we live.

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to use money as effectively as possible because the economy is a shithole at the moment.
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It is crap because of these overbearing regulations by the government that destroy liberty. That more and more money is taken out of the hands of people and put into ineffective and inefficient governments.
gvcspecks's avatar
They don't say what we can drink and eat, they have not prevented us drinking coke.
maddmatt's avatar
Not yet. Just tax the heck out of it to control you with your wallet.