Posted on 03/14/2009 2:13:42 PM PDT by Askwhy5times
Have a Coke and a tax Once government starts down the "sin tax" road, it is very hard to stop. Everyone loves to tax a product they do not use. When revenues run low, alcohol and cigarettes are always at the top of the new tax list. Some municipalities have even proposed a "fat" tax. Now, a legislator in Utah has proposed a tax on caffeine. Be careful whose sin you tax. Yours may be next.
Let's tax caffeine, legislator argues
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“What’s next?”
Anything that makes you smile.
That’s something that spoilsports both left and right can agree upon. (Besides, liberals lack a sense of humor and never smile anyway.)
Where are all those pro-cigarette tax FREEPERS???? They were so thrilled to see 75 cent tax on cigarettes and were bliss about it....well unless they eat dirt from the ground their food or entertainment choice will be taxed too....just a matter of time...apparently a very short matter of time.
“What’s next?”
Tar & Feather tax?
Jeez. Like the Pop business needs another blow. It’s just now starting to come back now that gas prices have stayed low
“What’s next?”
I say tax feminine napkins next as they pose an uncomtrolled bio hazard, besides that, most any male plumber will agree that the only use they have for them, is when they snake them out of the office lavatories.
The tax on loose tobacco is going up by 2200% on April first.
Here in Michigan Jenny Granholm is already saying the drop in revenue from lottery and tobacco taxes is “breathtaking”.
There’s no limit on what these lowlifes will do to take our money. They will tax more and more things to pay for their always expanding pork projects. I don’t know how anybody could look at these politicians without wanting to spit right in their faces.
Tax meat, you filthy barbaric carnivores! You’re clogging up your arteries and ruining your colon. Shame on all of you.
Hell I don’t eat at McDonalds so a 2200% tax increase on a Big Mac won’t mean anything to me. [/sarc]
>Now, a legislator in Utah has proposed a tax on caffeine..
I propose a tax on legislators. - by the word.
Global Warming and all that...
A tea tax, as soon as they decide that tea parties are a sin.
While caffeine shouldn’t be taxed, States should put a little scrutiny into where it is used as a food additive.
Remember that it is a psychoactive drug, can effect sugar metabolism, interfere with sleep patterns, and other things. This is fine as far as adults are concerned. However, a LOT of foods and drinks targeted to children are laced with caffeine as well. This is not so good.
Before the age of 19-25, children’s brains are not fully mature. It is been proven that when addictive substances are given to children, not only are they more likely to get addicted than adults, but the condition may be permanent. For the rest of their lives, it will be easier for them to get substance addiction, even to other drugs.
While caffeine has very mild addictive effects, the principal of giving what amounts to poisons to undeveloped brains posits risk.
Not that it should be banned in children’s foods and drinks yet, but that it should be looked at. Since it does not enhance flavor or taste in such products, then why give them to children?
Utah - Tax caffeine. Why caffeine?
Leave my Coca Cola alone... as far as that other “coke”, you can have at it, and execute the guys, too... LOL..
They’re already considering using nearly a billion dollars of “stimulus” money to balance the books in Michigan due to the fall off in sin tax revenue.
What’s really pathetic is the fact that we give filmmakers a tax break and it’s actually working but will never be a major industry here. Too bad the morons are too stupid to know why they’re able to attract Hollywood but unable to attract real industry.
“A tea tax, as soon as they decide that tea parties are a sin.”
I’m proposing tossing politicians into the harbor instead of wasting tea.
Coming soon. The Luxury Tax.
My ex was a cop and they kept feminine napkins in their emergency kits...said that made excellent bandages.
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