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RUSH: Kurt, again, in Chicago. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019ve got a question for your opinion. I\u2019m a fat guy and it worries me that they\u2019re going to try to tax me for being fat. Do you think Roe v. Wade would apply to my right to bodily privacy?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckles) Not unless you get a womb and somehow what you eat makes you pregnant.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s making me fat. It\u2019s my right. I don\u2019t want them intruding on my body.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What you\u2019re saying is that because of Roe v. Wade, the constitutional protection you have the right to do with your body whatever you want has been established?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but no, only for women.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, do they have more constitutional rights than I do?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve got some hooters on me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Look, we\u2019ll take everything about you and it\u2019s the same. You\u2019re fat, and you\u2019re married and your wife gets pregnant and you say, ‘I can\u2019t afford this,\u2019 but you say, ‘I\u2019m going to go ahead and do this. I have a moral obligation. She\u2019s pregnant. We\u2019re going to have a child.\u2019 She says, ‘No, I don\u2019t want the baby.\u2019 You have no say in the matter. Zip, zero, nada. It\u2019s all up to her. Husbands have no say in this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But this is my body, though! She can\u2019t say whether I\u2019m fat or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your body doesn\u2019t have constitutional protections and neither does a fat woman\u2019s. Only a pregnant woman\u2019s.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re going to have to change that, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I wouldn\u2019t worry about it. You know how to get past this? I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to do this. They\u2019re gonna gonna tax the fat content of food or they\u2019re going to make you go to a doctor and have your fat content tested and tax you based on how much over the legal limit it is. If they do it the first way — if they just tax the fat or calories in food — all you\u2019ve gotta do is go out and hire some skinny little kid to go buy your food for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are ways around this. Let\u2019s say you like to eat at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019ve thought about this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, and then you make a deal with the kid. The kid can\u2019t legally buy booze. You go buy his booze; he buys your McNuggets.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) All right. I\u2019ve got a plan now. Thanks, Rush. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that\u2019s a much better way of beating this than try to go the Roe v. Wade route.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Believe me, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to work. Good point, by the way.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me quote Obama on obesity from his book The Audacity of Hope. Here\u2019s Obama on obesity from his own book, The Audacity of Hope: ‘Sometimes finding the right balance is relatively easy. We all agree, for instance, that society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others. The First Amendment doesn\u2019t give you the right to yell ‘fire\u2019 in a crowded theater; your right to practice your religion does not encompass human sacrifice. Likewise, we all agree that there must be limits to the state\u2019s power to control our behavior, even if it\u2019s for our own good. Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.\u2019 Yet he\u2019s doing it. Well, he doesn\u2019t say he\u2019s going to do it, he just knows we don\u2019t feel comfortable with it, but screw it. Our behavior must be constrained. ‘Society has a right to constrain individual freedom when it threatens to do harm to others.\u2019 And they\u2019re gonna now say that obesity harms others.<\/p>\n

Now, this next story is fascinatingly interesting. It is from state-controlled media Reuters: ‘A common and safe blue food dye might provide the best treatment available so far for spinal cord injuries, US researchers reported on Monday. Tests in rats showed the dye, called brilliant blue G, a close relative of the common food dye Blue no. 1, crossed into the spinal fluid and helped block inflammation. ‘We have no effective treatment now for patients who have an acute spinal cord injury. Our hope is that this work will lead to a practical, safe agent that can be given to patients shortly after injury.” This is the exact blue food dye that is used in M&amp;Ms, the exact blue food dye. Again, this is brilliant blue G, the blue dye used in M&amp;Ms may help spinal cord injuries. Now, many of you have always known that M&amp;Ms were good for you, but you might have thought it was the yellows or the reds or the green ones. So now what do we do? What the hell do we do? We\u2019ve got fat people out there eating M&amp;Ms and they\u2019re going to be taxed for it, but yet doing so might actually be healthy. Who would have ever thought? I guarantee you M&amp;Ms are going to be on villain list unless Obama\u2019s daughters like them. If Obama\u2019s daughters like M&amp;Ms then they\u2019ll get a reprieve and exemption. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, on the fat tax here\u2019s another question. Michael Phelps, the Olympian, the Olympic champion, during the Olympics we were all told that he eats 6,000 calories a day, and there were news stories of what he eats. If you and I ate that stuff in that quantity, we\u2019d be 300 pounds inside of six months. Does he get taxed on buying that stuff? What about in a house where you\u2019ve got an obese person, a skinny person, and they eat the same stuff, who doesn\u2019t pay the tax and who does? It makes me wonder how they\u2019re going to do it, and they\u2019re going to do it. Just makes me wonder how they\u2019re going to get this done. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, I have an orientation toward entrepreneurism. I\u2019m an entrepreneur. I love entrepreneurism. So I\u2019m already thinking ahead. Okay, so we\u2019re going to get some kind of fat tax, right? Some kind of fat tax. There\u2019s going to be a fat tax, an obesity tax, right? One of the greatest incentives I have… I\u2019m going to come up with this. Gore did it. One of the greatest incentives I have to stay skinny is to propose something like the fat tax offset program. Just like the carbon tax, just like the carbon tax offset. So for every pound I lose and stay skinny, I get a tax credit. Or fat people can buy tax credits from me so they can stay fat. When do we get Cash for Geezers like Cash for Clunkers? Cash for Geezers should be part of the health care plan. (interruption) What? What? (interruption) Mmm-hmnm. Well, yeah, you could store up the tax credits, too, so if you gain weight then you could use them then. Oh, yeah! If you gain the weight back or if you just put on the pounds later in life \u2019cause it happens to you when you get old? Yeah. I mean, the market\u2019s wide open for this. Fat tax credits. I\u2019d be glad to lead the movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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