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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
I just read an absurd article which suggested that an 18
percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults'
calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5
pounds per year.
The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal
Medicine, suggested taxing could be used as a weapon in the
fight against obesity, which costs the United States an
estimated $147 billion a year in health costs.
A tax on pizza to fight obesity? Really? There were 34,000
deaths in 2008 due to traffic accidents. Let's add an 18
percent tax to automobiles to curb driving and lower that
number, people!
Granted, that is an unrelated area.
Let's get back to food. Here's the thing...you can make pizza
at home...can't you? And what about all vegetarian pizzas?
So it's really not pizzerias who are causing obesity. It's
the dairy and cattle industries (pork specifically, but beef
too). Why don't we tax cheese and pork an extra 18 percent?
Maybe because the dairy and cattle lobbies are way too
powerful to even let such a bizarre idea be mentioned by
any legislature.
No, I think a much better idea is to tax fat itself. Here's
how it would work. Every person would have to have a BMI
measurement taken when he or she pays their taxes. Then you
would pay a percentage based upon how much of a fatass you
are.
Brilliant? I think so.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Hey Lewis! Here's another book for you to peruse on the
john. "Black Gold, Strangle Hold" by Dr. Jerome R. Corsi
Ph.D and Craig R. Smith. The authors, Dr. Corsi and Mr.
Smith, clame that the earth creates oil and it well never
run out as long as the earths core remains hot and molten.
-H.R.
[You're talking about the abiotic oil theory. Unfortunately
that is not a widely accepted theory (it would be nice,
wouldn't it?). There is even microscopic evidence of the
organisms from which the oil was formed in the oil itself!
Capped wells may appear to refill after a few years, but
they are not regenerating. It is simply an effect of oil
slowly migrating through pore spaces from areas of high
pressure to the low-pressure area of the drill hole.]
Here's a story for you... "A Northern Ontario woman was
charged with mischief on Tuesday after police say she
wouldn't stop calling 911 to ask them to pick her up some
smokes. Moira Williams, 67, had been drinking and ran out
of cigarettes when she repeatedly called the emergency
line to ask police to go to the store and buy her some.
By 3:15 a.m., police drove to her home and arrested her."
[But did they finally give her any smokes???]
Lewis, According to what I have read, there is only enough
oil in ANWR to supply the US for about 15 years. Also, the
oil would all go to Japan with the rest of the Alaskan oil
anyway.
[Since there haven't been any surveys (at least any public
surveys) in the last 30 years, who knows?]
In response to the scuba diver and Mexico. The TJ, Mexico
sewage plant was built with America's money free of charge.
Mexico would not build one and dumped raw untreated sewage
into the river. The Mexico side refuses to pay to operate
their free plant, which is fully staffed by Mexico. So the
product is pumped into the US plant and then treated before
being reintroduced to the river. Before The US had the
plant built there was no sewage treatment on the Mexico
side. I know this because I'm a sewage plant operator in
the US; and this long standing condition is something we
laugh about. It is totally absurd.
Lewis, Canada supplies most of America's oil, not the middle
east. I wish that we held some of your debt but we don't.
You can send us over some sheckles if you like though! -Doug
[I don't know about 'most' but I do know that the US imports
a lot of Canadian oil produced from tar sands.]
Lewis, I've seen this story before. I still think we should
drill on our own soil, and not worry about the Saudis
financing our debt with our own money. The US Dollar might
collapse, but at least we will have the fuel to get us where
we need to go. I think the Saudi economy would completely
collapse without our greenbacks buying their oil. -Dave
[Probably not completely. There are a lot of very oil thirsty
countries in the world.]
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