Does anyone remember..

[Paddy]

I had trouble once on a flight sitting next to fat member of an ethnic minority who occupied one and a half seats.

[sasguru]

By weight and size so tall people and large breasted women like Janey or SA have to pay twice the fare.

Tall, thin people don't take more space, they use the unused vertical space in tubes,trains, planes etc. Fat people take up 2 seats.
Large breasted women are OK though, they can rest the extra on me anytime.

[Francko]

if you are transporting goods you pay by weight, so why should porkers not pay more?

By weight and size so tall people and large breasted women like Janey or SA have to pay twice the fare.

[scooterscot]

Smokers and drinkers pay for their extra health care through taxes on fags and booze. How would the government tax fat people for their extra health care?

They could start through a voluntary exercise where the individual is asked to mark their weight on the tax return. The tax code is adjusted to suit.

[sasguru]

Smokers and drinkers pay for their extra health care through taxes on fags and booze. How would the government tax fat people for their extra health care?

Tax on cakes and pies.

[scooterscot]

With four people on board my car is so slow that this must be an extra safety factor, not the other way round.

Clearly you've never had to push your motor when it's ran out of petrol... Otherwise you'd have remembered how easy it was to stop. That was sarcasm.

[wendigo100]

Smokers and drinkers pay for their extra health care through taxes on fags and booze. How would the government tax fat people for their extra health care?

[sasguru]

Fat people should pay more road tax, tube, train and plane fares, as they are take more room and are bulkier to transport. It's only logical - if you are transporting goods you pay by weight, so why should porkers not pay more?

[ZZZZ Snoozer]

this food critic (sometimes appears on Gordon Ramsay’s F word) who made the comment “I’ve long suspected that fat people were more dangerous on the road while driving”)

He continued to prove this, using sacks of potatoes, and showed how braking distances were effected thereby indeed taking out the young thing in pigtails with no more road since than bugs bunny. In fact the extra breaking distance required was substantial with 4 or so large adults in the vehicle compared to 4 adults of lesser stature.

What’s the point?

Fat people should be made to pay more road tax. I think that was the point…

Discuss….

With four people on board my car is so slow that this must be an extra safety factor, not the other way round.

[Francko]

I am not fat, I am big-boned

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[scooterscot]

this food critic (sometimes appears on Gordon Ramsay’s F word) who made the comment “I’ve long suspected that fat people were more dangerous on the road while driving”)

He continued to prove this, using sacks of potatoes, and showed how braking distances were effected thereby indeed taking out the young thing in pigtails with no more road since than bugs bunny. In fact the extra breaking distance required was substantial with 4 or so large adults in the vehicle compared to 4 adults of lesser stature.

What’s the point?

Fat people should be made to pay more road tax. I think that was the point…

Be warned…. in the not to distance future you may be requested to submit you weight on the next tax return.