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To: slacker711 who wrote (120691)	9/9/2009 1:14:49 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 542043

If that is the bar, there are any number of things that you could ban or tax to death. It's mostly a question of offsetting the costs from various things. We regulate and tax pollution because it creates a social cost. We require seatbelts, helmets, speed limits (which cost trucking companies profits due to time) and liability insurance on the road because without them, there is a higher social cost. Cigarette taxes are huge now. And on and on. The actual financial costs of our obesity epidemic are huge and growing. The idea that a pizza-addicted 300-pounder has the right to expect everyone else to pay for the healthcare burden they create doesn't add up.

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