Obesity is America's fastest-growing health problem

Writes Donald Luskin (referring to Paul Krugman, of course),

What would government do with such money (assuming, fantastically, that the attempt to collect that much in tax dollars wouldn’t utterly destroy the economy)? Krugman has at least one idea. Both of his Times columns last week (here and here) were pleas to “put aside our anti-government prejudices” and “do something” about obesity — “America’s fastest-growing health problem.”

I think obesity is indeed America’s fastest-growing health problem, except that it is not the obesity of people, but of the government at all levels. As if the government were not already too fat, Krugman wants it to take at least 28% of GDP, higher than the height during World War II!