We know what's best for you, you stupid peons!
Don't question our brilliance, just shut-up and comply.
</liberal smugness>
national soda tax needed to take more money from the people and give it to government liberals to use as bribes.
Well, if you’re a cigarette and/or alcohol tax booster, I don’t see how you can be outraged by this.
Translated: We just need another legal way to take more money away from you stupid people, who if we frame this issue a certain way, will beg us to do so.
This will shut down family restaurants and the vending machine business.
And a soda tax will kill independent brands like Faygo, not Coke or Pepsi.
/johnny
I don’t think the founding fathers meant taxes to become a punishment. It’s supposed to pay for a service.
Liberals nationalized medical expenses in an overreach that sensible people condemned, and now the same liberals want to expand their control over what we do on a moment to moment basis - they claim to control costs that they chose to assume? It sounds like some people have too little going on in their own lives if their highest priorities are to regulate what other people choose to drink and whether nuns have government-mandated birth control and abortions. Liberals disgust me.
Exactly how much does soda contribute to obesity anyway? Its largely empty calories which are easily burned off with minimal activity.
Juice has just as much sugar as soda.
The thought that “society” shouldn’t be paying the cost for stupid individual decisions never enters their tiny little minds.
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Racist! No more Eric Garners!
Great, now people can get arrested for selling untaxed Pepsi.
It’s the money, it’s always the money.
Otherwise they’d be calling for excluding sodas from EBT purchase.
But that wouldn’t get any money....
Dear California,
Mind your own ****** business. We are NOT your vassals>
Signed,
Michigan & Vernors
Brought to you by the same Progressive Jack asses that think that subsidies on corn syrup are a a spenda thing....
That muffled voice you hear is Eric Garner shouting from the grave, "Amen, bro!"
Time for national soda tax, raise the gas tax and I’m sure they can come up with some more “common sense” taxes. By common I mean if you spend all your time kissing “liberal” butt. By liberal I mean control freak.
How does ripping people off a few more cents for a soda bring down the calorie content? What a scam.
Apparently Jonathan Gruber has changed his name to David Lazarus.
What America REALLY needs is a law that “taxes the hell out of politicians”. It’s time those buffoons put THEIR OWN MONEY where their big mouth is.