Should there be Fat Tax?

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Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Last night there was a programme on TV in which the presenter sugessted that fat people should be taxed.

Fact Obesity costs the NHS £1 billion a year adn teh UK economy £2.5 billion in lost work. So to claw back the £3.5 billion he suggested a tax and various ways of going about it.

So considering the costs and the fact that most people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little should there be a tax?

Fat tax eh? :hmm: Not a novel idea but strikes me as something that would be both difficult to properly implement and possibly even counter-productive (may be so expensive to implement that the revenue obtained is insignificant, while at the same time doing nothing to impact the problem of obesity).