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I agree but I don't like where this may all head. If we start getting everyone to live to 110 we better get ready for soaring geezercare costs.
I've always wanted to see how they come up with the costs of smoking and whatnot to healthcare. If someone dies at 45 of lung cancer are we not saving years of checkups, hip replacements, heart ailments, old age homes, pension payments, prescriptions and years of old guy jibberjabber. I guess we are losing the influx of money from income lost but needless to say, these numbers can be vastly different depending on the results that one wants to have.
I think if we are to start taxing lifestyles we should go all the way, if you have a genetic disposition to certain conditions, you pay higher tax rates, why should I have to support your choice to procreate a flawed gene pool. I'm being a little facetious. Just something creeps me out whenever the government wants to get more involved in daily choices. They will have underground burger parlours, Lik-m-stiks will be as valuable as crack cocaine. [/b][/quote]
To take things a little further along these lines, how about tax breaks for people who pass a physical once a year? Wouldn't that make some sense as well?
I work out all the time, stay active and couldn't be paid to eat at Mcdonalds. The last time I was at the doctors office was to drop off my girlfriend for her woman stuff, and that was last year. Should I be penalized for staying healthy and not being a strain on the system, while an overweight person who makes daily KFC runs enjoys all the tax benefits I do?
I'm being extreme of course, but I really have no sympathy for overweight people who p*ss and moan about not being able to walk around the block from triple knee surgeries, which was caused by the 30 gallons of ice cream they ate last year. Genetics is one thing, but being lazy is something completely different.