You're Too Fat to Eat Here

Mississippi legislators have introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. The work of Republicans W. T. Mayhall Jr., John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows, the bill proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. Some in the Mississippi legislature worry that the new law would be too draconian in nature, not making allowances for the chunky, thick, husky or big boned.

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Why? This is a great idea, one that I'd like to see pushed nation-wide. It's people like you that drive people to vote for Ron Paul.

Fat people cost everyone else greatly increased health costs - and I don't mean increased insurance costs, since insurance companies can just raise insurance rates for fat people. No, I mean costs like ambulances, paramedics, and emergency room costs. To the extent government is involved in those costs, it shouldn't be. And if government decides to be involved in those costs, it cannot use that as justification for taking away someone's liberty. That's utter nonsense. "Here, we are going to give you X ... and now, since we gave you X, you have to give up Y." Utter bullshit.

Since being fat is a personal choice (losing weight is easy: stop eating so much!), and fat people have chosen to burden everyone else with their choice ... False. EVERYONE ELSE CHOSE to be so burdened, by participating in paying for those costs in the first place.

it's a simple solution to forcibly make them stop eating so much. Yes. Simple, and utterly fascist. A simpler, and far better, solution is to NOT PAY FOR THOSE COSTS. Then there's no problem.

The entire point behind government regulation is to protect society from people who actively harm it. False. The entire point of government is to protect individual liberty. Government has absolutely no business whatsoever giving a damn about how fat anyone is.