Gruber Does It Again: “Ultimately What May Be Needed… Are Direct Taxes on Body Weight”

Gruber Does It Again: “Ultimately What May Be Needed… Are Direct Taxes on Body Weight”

Do you have a few extra pounds that you aren’t proud of? Ex-Obamacare adviser Jonathan Gruber believes that not only should you be embarrassed by your weight, but you should be taxed for it as well. Big Brother suggests you choose the salad.

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From Fox News:

Jonathan Gruber, long credited as the architect of ObamaCare, once discussed the necessity of taxing fat people by body weight in order to fight obesity.

“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight,” Gruber wrote in an essay for the National Institute for Health Care Management in April 2010, just months after helping design ObamaCare with the president in the Oval Office and during the period in which he was under contract as an Obama administration consultant.

“While it is hard to conceive of this approach being a common public policy tool in the near term, such taxation may be happening indirectly through health insurance surcharges,” he wrote. “Currently, employers may charge up to 20 percent higher health insurance premiums for employees who fail to meet certain health-related standards, such as attaining a healthy BMI.”

“The new health reform legislation increases this differential to 30 percent, with the possibility of rising to 50 percent. Results of programs that use differential premiums to impose direct financial penalties for obesity will bear watching in the future.”

Interpretation: “You will be healthy, OR ELSE!” This isn’t about having your best interests at heart, it’s about control.

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