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CharlestonSC

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I hate taxes so much I'm almost allergic but we need MASSIVE taxes on food


that do not meet scientifically recognized health benefits. People need to pay for what their decisions truly cost. Maybe we can use the tax revenue to subsidize veggies until they're almost free? It is appalling how a significant portion of people choose to consume food, and I resent like hell as a taxpayer that I have to pay for it. I truly don't mind paying whatever it costs to make sure seniors have healthcare, that the working poor can make a living, that the disabled are provided services, that the homeless have a dry place to sleep, etc ... but it drives me absolutely fucking INSANE to watch somebody who is already overweight sitting in the parking lot at McDonalds - don't even want to walk 15 feet inside - and shoveling 1700 calories into their mouth for lunch. Go walk around a track (or better yet come to a cycle class) and eat carrots and apples for lunch and see if you're not much healthier in a few months.

Probably doesn't help that our business is literally 20 yards from a McDonalds, but it drives me bananas and is a major pressure point for me (clearly). Do these assholes not realize that I want a massive burger and fries for lunch too? Have some fucking sense, be an adult and realize that decisions have consequences.

/rant

(In response to this post by Lich)

Posted: 06/22/2017 at 7:32PM



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U.S. health care spending -- Joey Wahoo 06/22/2017 4:52PM
  I got it from here (link) -- Joey Wahoo 06/22/2017 8:54PM
  Yes- bring the normalized (per citizen) numbers down -- Capital City Hoo 06/22/2017 6:29PM
  Where the fuck are you buying broccoli?? ** -- wahoo138 06/23/2017 06:04AM
  Acme. 10th and Spruce ** -- KaHOOnah 06/23/2017 09:53AM
  .** -- Lich 06/22/2017 7:05PM
  It's going to make you healthier? ** -- Hokieesith 06/22/2017 6:12PM
  Yes -- Quaker 06/22/2017 6:55PM
  I doubt it. ** -- Hokieesith 06/22/2017 6:28PM
  It doesn't -- ConnHoo 06/22/2017 5:10PM

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