Posted by
novelator on Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:09:32 AM
When
Congress first tried behavior modification through arbitrary taxation,
smokers were the guinea pigs. That was such an emotional issue, wasn't
it? And a lot of Americans, easily swayed, helped Congress perpetrate
this scheme by falling prey to the emotional selling points. What
Congress did, and is still doing, was rake in the dough and laugh
behind our backs at how stupid Americans were. And local and state
governments were quick to follow suit.
Now, Congress and Obama
have set their sights on fat people. Soda is the "enabler", soda and
all those "damaging" fruit drinks. Congress and Obama must "save" all
fat Americans from themselves by modifying the behaviors of all of us
through taxation. Oh, they'll push the emotional hot buttons, try to
make bad guys of those who are overweight, those who don't look like
the liberals' idea of what a robotic model citizen should be, just like
before when they, with the help of the mainstream media, victimized
smokers in a blatant attempt to cannibalize their rights.
Is
that what you want? To have your behavior modified and your choices
stolen left and right by Congress and Obama? Or do you believe, as I
do, that being an adult I, as a free American, have the right to decide
for me what is best for me. That I and you, as free Americans, should
not be subjected to a behavior modification ala Hitler's Germany where
the tool to modify that behavior is not shock treatments or internment
camps, but a cattle prod dressed as a tax.
Freedom means that
although we may not like the choices made by the American next to us,
we are duty-bound to defend his or her right to make those choices,
without arbitrary and discriminatory taxation. We are not peasants,
serfs, slaves or cows, to be prodded by higher taxes to give up our
freedoms, especially to an elitist Congress and President who thinks
we're all so stupid as to not see this scheme for what it really
is--another attempt at control.