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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
What if instead of a tax we build fat farms and force fat people to go there and run on treadmills 24 hours a day that are attached to giant generating stations.
We could help them becoming healthier and take care of our energy needs and the good news is there would be no tax requirements.
We could feed them pretty cheaply by giving them finely condensed protein paste and the bodies of people who can't survive the dramatic treadmill process.
That's right people, we can feed them people, who are high in all of the essential food requirements and go well with red and white wine.
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I like where you're going with this. Let me run with this a bit further, and suggest that maybe we do the same thing with prisoners. Instead of getting their exercise out in the yard, the prisoners get on treadmills that are hooked up to generators. In fact, why not change the judicial system so that people get penalized in terms of megawatts rather than years.
Not only would they be busy generating power for all the law abiding citizens, but they'd probably spend so much time on the treadmill (trying to get to their target megawatts/release date sooner) that they would be too tired to cause riots, stab other inmates/guards, attempt escape, etc).
Oh, and just to stay on topic, they wouldn't be fat either.
Win-win-win.