Topic: Fat chance this bill will ever pass!
Peccy's photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:20 PM
An Illinois lawmaker wants parents to lose the $2,000 state tax credit for a child if the kid is obese.

But colleagues of Republican state Sen. Shane Cultra said they want to find other ways to fight childhood obesity before levying a new tax.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_but_true/weird_but_true_ik7nI0xLKp4dBVnnAnxutL#ixzz1MZ35HtmI

AndyBgood's photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:23 PM
Hey, Obama wants to punish those of us who can't cough up for Health Care insurance to the tune of $2500 each year. SO my question to them is this, if we don't have the money where are we going to get it? Steal it? Borrow it?

animedude's photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:24 PM
government is just trying to find a way to survive cause they have spent beyond there means. I dig for the truth behind them.

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bastet126's photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:31 PM
i wonder how they proposed to find this out? i doubt any parent would check an 'is your child obese?' box. they really are grasping at straws.

no photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:38 PM
I've always thought the government were full of bs. This topic proves me somewhat right, yet again. Their excuses will leave us with no homes, no food, no technology, just a heap of grass to sleep on.

mightymoe's photo
Mon 05/16/11 05:39 PM
bills like this are designed for a reason.. it will be added to a few other bills they do not want passed, so people see this and say don't vote for that, when, in reality, it was designed fo never pass... more of a smokescreen..

winterblue56's photo
Mon 05/16/11 06:03 PM
more likely they will get passed on the heals of another law.

mightymoe's photo
Mon 05/16/11 06:06 PM

more likely they will get passed on the heals of another law.


maybe, but it seems like if they wanted it to pass, they wouldn't have headlined it...

Dragoness's photo
Mon 05/16/11 07:34 PM

An Illinois lawmaker wants parents to lose the $2,000 state tax credit for a child if the kid is obese.

But colleagues of Republican state Sen. Shane Cultra said they want to find other ways to fight childhood obesity before levying a new tax.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_but_true/weird_but_true_ik7nI0xLKp4dBVnnAnxutL#ixzz1MZ35HtmI


This won't make it out of committee, no worries.

Chazster's photo
Mon 05/16/11 07:51 PM
Its not more taxes its less of a credit. My old company gave us money if we didnt smoke. I see nothing wrong with the gov. giving you money if you kid isnt obese.