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Friendly reminder that the US government spends more than twice as much per capita on health care than any other country in the world (second being Canada, who has its own gross inefficiencies and is itself quite a bit higher than third place) and still can't manage to provide it to all of its citizens. This notion that socializing the American health care system would require a tax increase is outright wrong. The money's already being spent, it's just being spent in stupid, inefficient ways that ultimately cost more than having a proper health care system would.

The_tall_midget posted...

As a matter of fact, I believe that any groups that are liable to a financial drain on society, especially thanks for the push for more socialist cancers as we've been seeing, should be penalized in the form of paying more taxes.

Obese people tend to rack up fewer health care costs over the course of their lives than those you would consider "healthy," simply because they tend not to live as long. Getting old gets very expensive.