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To: macavity who wrote (41657)	11/18/2003 1:42:57 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<<Obesity>> I pay to carry fat people in airplanes. I am 1.75m tall and weigh, max. 63Kg and usually 60Kg, dropping to 58Kg when working flat out. I pay for those fat people to fly in an airplane. Obesity should be taxed in a way to have a max. 75Kg person weight. Every Kg of people's mass above this would be charged as excess weight-as luggage excess is today- up to a maximum of 85Kg. Between 85Kg and 95Kg the charges for excess would be hefty. First Class and Business class would continue flat rate as today. That would give an incentive to people to trim their weight to save money, and as a result being more healthy. We must do to the fat people what people do to smokers. Pushing them out of the mainstream.