Taxpayers to fund war on obesity

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By Alison Rehn

June 02, 2009 12:00am

TAXPAYERS should pay for the overweight to have their stomachs stapled to fight the nation’s crippling obesity crisis, a parliamentary committee said.

And a national fat register should be set up to gather data to tackle the whopping $58 billion black hole that the obesity epidemic left in the national economy last year.

Politics imitates comedy. And not for the first time.