Monday, August 24, 2009

Horrible Idea Reproposed

The scapegoating of the obese during the health care debate is almost getting comical. Time and again bad ideas like 'sin taxes' are proposed, and even now the proponents are forced to openly admit they don't work - but let's do them anyway.

Common misconceptions are bandied about like the candy they hope to ban. "We must act!" they implore, "To prevent this generation from having a lower life expectancy than those before them!" Just how much cognitive dissonance does it cause to say that when it's just been reported that we're living longer than ever?

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