Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Social Security Saved by Supersizing?
Has the fast food/junk food industry quietly solved our Social Security problem?
If we can just find a way to make it to, say, 2045 with the Social Security system intact, the Social Security trust fund should experience a major rebound as current 20-somethings and youger hit retirement age. After a lifetime of funding Social Security with payroll taxes during their productive years, they will die off in late middle age -- just before they start collecting their checks -- from heart disease, obesity-related ailments, and other maladies caused by their steady diet of high fat fast food and junk food crammed with transfatty acids and high fructose corn syrup.
I don't know who thought that one up, but it's diabolically clever.
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If we can just find a way to make it to, say, 2045 with the Social Security system intact, the Social Security trust fund should experience a major rebound as current 20-somethings and youger hit retirement age. After a lifetime of funding Social Security with payroll taxes during their productive years, they will die off in late middle age -- just before they start collecting their checks -- from heart disease, obesity-related ailments, and other maladies caused by their steady diet of high fat fast food and junk food crammed with transfatty acids and high fructose corn syrup.
I don't know who thought that one up, but it's diabolically clever.
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That's good stuff! Maybe the smoking ban was a bad idea, and we could subsidize cigarettes rather than tax them too. I just don't think fast food has the killing power of tobacco.
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: 7:44 PM, March 15, 2005
: 7:44 PM, March 15, 2005
However, before they actually die, they will sue the hell out of the fast food companies and the trans fatty acids themselves.
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