Fat Tax Coming?

\"mcd.jpg\"What\’s that? You like your greasy cheeseburgers and french fries? Gasp! Don\’t you know you are contributing to the ongoing trend of obesity in America? And don\’t you realize that you are responsible for the exploding costs in health care? What kind of person are you, anyway? You should be punished!

Or so say the liberal, wacko extremists that want to find another way to place restrictions on your Constitutional freedoms. Fortunately, they have lost the most recent battle.

This story just off the new wire…

Judge Throws Out Obesity Suit Against McDonalds

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday threw out a revised lawsuit against McDonald\’s Corp . that accused the fast food restaurant of using misleading advertising to lure children into eating unhealthy foods that make them fat.

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Don\’t think this is over, and don\’t think they aren\’t looking to demonize those who would make the choice to eat whatever they want. They did it with cigarettes. They are attempting to do it with those who would choose to drive SUVs, and they are doing it with so-called \”fatty food\”.

I say, go and eat whatever the heck you want. It is YOUR body and YOUR life. And if YOU. end up in the hospital with heart disease because of YOUR choices, it is YOUR problem. God bless America!

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