UK Government Wants Tax On Fat People
Oct 4th, 2011 | By Keelan Balderson | Category: Breaking News, Economy, Health & Big Pharma
In the UK Government’s latest divide & conquer scheme to raise more public money for the private bankers, Prime Minister David Cameron has suggested a nationwide fat tax should be implemented to skim money from obese citizens.
The Guardian are running with the Prime Minster’s Orwellian Doublethink, by reporting that the proposal is “to tackle Britain’s growing obesity levels.”
Cameron said drastic action was needed to prevent health costs soaring and life expectancy falling.
Of course the keyword there is “costs”, not health. This is about money not the well-being of the people.
100,000 people die each year from smoking related-illnesses brought on by commercial cigarettes. There is an equally shocking figure in regard to Alcohol related deaths. From a libertarian standpoint it’s nobody’s business what other people do to their body, but when the nanny state starts talking about health, they need a dose of reality. If they really cared that much, they would outlaw smoking and drinking, they seem to think it’s working for Marijuana. But they don’t, instead they use people’s addictions as a convenient tax revenue. And now a tax on fatty foods may join that same corrupt system.
The Government have desperately been trying to find ways to cut public services and raise money in order to pay off their £4.8 trillion debt to the private financial system. Instead of doing what’s best for the public and writing off the debt, which was built up through illegal wars, funding the undemocratic EU, and bailing out the banks & gamblers in the City, politicians have been developing ways to extract it from the people while keeping them at each other’s throats.
It becomes a circus of blame. Blame those who are out of work by labeling them lazy, rather than disabled or redundant thanks to the economic crisis. Blame struggling mums on benefits because they’re supposedly living the high life. Now it’s blame fat people because they’re related illnesses go towards hospital costs.
And it sounds somewhat reasonable, maybe fat lazy people are a burden. But we live in a nation where the Government doesn’t even acknowledge the benefits of Organic food, and the Food Standard’s Agency who advice them is full of former heads of the big agribusinesses and supermarket chains [1]. The very people responsible for selling and pushing unhealthy, unnatural and factory farmed foods.
The Government once again hopes the people get stuck blaming each other…blame the fatty, blame the chav on benefits, instead of the people collectively turning around and blaming the root cause of our financial problems. The private banking system’s monopoly over issuing currency, which they do so as an automatic debt, and the gambling through the stock exchange and mortgage system that crashed the economy in the first place, but which we had to bail out. Once again it’s about sucking the wealth from the 99% and handing it to the top 1%.