You Are Fat And A Burden On The Health System

**MisterD** · 10th February 2012, 10:31

Originally Posted by superman

What about lighting used for that area you'd need a floor area to work out what percentage of power is used for it. Including percentage of power used when scanning through GST free items at the counter. Amount of cleaning product used in the GST free goods area, maintenance costs for that area of the building cannot have GST claims. Any shelves bought for that area cannot have GST claimed, any sticker labels used in that area cannot be claimed. NIGHTMARE.

I think you'll find that if you're a GST registered business then you simply get a credit from the IRD for all the GST you pay on transactions with your suppliers, you collect GST on all the taxable sales you make and the difference is what you pay or get refunded.

**Clockwork** · 10th February 2012, 10:37

Originally Posted by MisterD

It's not quite Hitcher's law (which is specifically that you'll make a stupid gramatical error, as soon as you start posting about poor grammar) but you've demonstrated that there's probably a wider truth, that as soon as you accuse someone of being stupid or ignorant, you'll make a error that makes you look dumb yourself.

It's bearing.

Dude..... a typeo.

I try harder than most on this site, honest!

**Headbanger** · 10th February 2012, 10:41

Originally Posted by superman

Where's the anti-obesity campaigns similar to the anti-smoking campaigns we see?

"When it comes to calculating the cost of obesity-related illness, we don't have any up-to-date figures but the World Health Organisation estimates the cost to be 7 per cent of a country's health budget.That's a cool $300 million, or thereabouts."

$300 million a year? For gluttonous buffoons?

Someone should really lobby for a fat tax...

A 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey found that:

one in three adults were overweight (37.0%) and one in four were obese (27.8%).

(I'd hope a nutrition survey isn't stupid enough to only use BMI's)

So how do we solve yet another money-sharing issue? Seeing as supposedly 64.8% of us are either overweight or obese. Fat tax? Healthy school lunches? Nutrition classes? Or let it be... and let the joys of natural selection take its course? Non-communal health insurance? Or continue to have the entire population subsidise obesity-related costs for those who don't have enough will-power to fight their food addictions? Try and get everyone to grow their own veges/fruit?

So tell your hubby, wifey and mates that they're fatties (in a nice way if you want) because apparently it's the easiest way to improve an entire countries health and well being.

To compare ourselves to other nations (according to a Forbe's list) we are 17th in the world for our rate of 'overfedness', with places like the UK at 28th, Germany 43rd, U.S.A 9th, Sweden 90th.

Alllrrriiiiigt, fastest wank ever.

Didn't even need to read your text, The pic was more then enough.

**Clockwork** · 10th February 2012, 10:46

Originally Posted by superman

Anyone can choose how much time they devote to any aspect of their life. It is that simple. You just want to overcomplicate the issue, make excuses for your lifestyle choices and avoid responsibility for how you choose to live your life. Perhaps then you're too weak-willed to solve any problems, and perhaps that's why you find it appropriate to insult me on the basis of being younger than you...

Like I said.... you'll learn.

And just to put you straight on another of your silly assumptions

51 yo
185 cm
92 kgs

Slightly over weight but I don't think I was the target of this thread.

I exercise 3-4 times a week and now-a-days have to watch what I eat.

I just hope your BMI is as good when you get to 51.

**superman** · 10th February 2012, 10:48

Originally Posted by MisterD

I think you'll find that if you're a GST registered business then you simply get a credit from the IRD for all the GST you pay on transactions with your suppliers, you collect GST on all the taxable sales you make and the difference is what you pay or get refunded.

Yes, but if there was GST exemption on fresh food you wouldn't get credit for any GST expenses to do with those goods. Are you saying they would just ignore this, and allow companies to still claim all GST credits for fresh food related expenses, while also receiving no GST in on those goods. So the difference becomes much smaller and even less GST is paid by businesses? That would cost the government even more!

**slofox** · 10th February 2012, 12:05

63yo
171cm
72kg

BMI 24.6

Still a burden on the health system 'cause I chose the wrong ancestors. Hard to fix, that...

OR. Maybe if the health system hadn't intervened when I was 17 I woulda been dead ages ago and would have saved the gummint heaps.

Conclusion: Don't get born if you wanna save on health dollars.

**Bikemad** · 10th February 2012, 12:13

thread should really be called.........."politicians are fat and a burden on the taxpayer"

**James Deuce** · 10th February 2012, 12:17

Yes. I am stupid too.

**slowpoke** · 10th February 2012, 20:18

Originally Posted by superman

Anyone can choose how much time they devote to any aspect of their life. It is that simple. You just want to overcomplicate the issue, make excuses for your lifestyle choices and avoid responsibility for how you choose to live your life. Perhaps then you're too weak-willed to solve any problems, and perhaps that's why you find it appropriate to insult me on the basis of being younger than you...

WTF? From someone who has overcomplicated the fuck out of what could be a fairly simple Goods and Services tax system? And you think he's overcomplicating things? Mind boggling.........

And no, you haven't been insulted on the basis of your age, you've been questioned on your lack of real world life experience. How many years (if any) have you even been cooking for yourself? Or sourcing all your own food? What lifestyle choices have you had to make around providing for family/children, paying the bills etc? What do you know of the mechanisms for gaining weight? How much have you paid in tax vs how much assistance you've received?

Mate, you haven't even had a life yet you choose to lecture other people and decry their choices? Best you prove you can successfully look after yourself before you go any further down that road.