[JackMonroe]

Let people eat what they want.  Why do you care what other people eat anyway?  Government should have absolutely no say in this matter.  It's stupid.  I really don't know why you would want someone telling you what you can and can't eat.  Pisses me right off.  If you want to be skinny, eat right and exorcise.  Don't blame the world around you.

what about your tax money being spent on health costs for diabetics and other obese-related diseases ? I understand your mentality completely but think on a macro level what doubling the already obscene percentage of obese people there are in america will do. It will one day start affecting your life.

My main concern however are all the kids that are born fat, with disabilities and diseases they have to treat the rest of their life because of their parents' decisions. They do not deserve being born into this world with so much physical and later emotional restraint being put on them.

I am also against government involvement in healthcare.  If people want to be fat and unhealthy, they should have to pay for the health bill themselves, not the government.  It is called responsibility.  Fairness doesn't exist no matter what the government tries to do.  It isn't fair for a child to be born into poverty either, but it happens.  Not everyone can be rich, fit, and successful.  It's just the way of things.  I don't think you should ever tax food.  That to me is the most villainous thing a government can do.  Taxing an essential item that people need to survive.  But it is taxed anyway (like I said, there is no fair).  I am really for a 10% tax on whatever you make and that applies to everyone.  No other taxes.