| TheRealMafoo said: my point was, if you live in the US, you live in a country that does not have a single law I can think of, that keeps you poor. No one, in the US anyway, is forced to be poor.
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Except for a health care system that bankrupts most individuals, greedy corporations that will manipulate power supplies at your expense to boost its revenue whilst gambling away you pension benefits, government and social indoctrination to live a capitalistic lifestyle outside your means, credit card companies charging mob-like interest rates, and incumbent government that offers tax cuts to the wealthy whilst the poor struggle. Yeah, nobody is forced to be poor in the US. : )
Not saying that many other countries are any better, but maybe you should just be a little more carefully before throwing out nationalistic statements like that.
But back to the topic , incentives are wrong, as they give people a choice. I think schools should have a responsibility of reporting severly obese children, and parents should be educated into helping the condition, or be fined or lose your kid iif they refuse.
If your kid is 5 feet tall and weighs 4000 pounds, sorry, but somewhere you are not fulfilling your parental duty. It may sound harsh, but somewhere in this kids upbringing, something went wrong, no matter how subconsciously. You should not be paid for this. You should be educated on how to reverse/prevent this, and fined if you refuse.
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