Newsom wants to charge stores that sell sodas

SF Gate ^ | Friday, September 18, 2009 | Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Newsom wants to charge stores that sell sodas

(09-17) 20:36 PDT -- Calling soda the new tobacco, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will introduce legislation this fall that would charge a fee to retailers that sell sugary beverages.

Newsom would need voter approval to tax individual cans of soda and sugary juice, but only needs approval from the Board of Supervisors to levy a fee on retailers. His legislation would charge grocery stores like Safeway and big-box stores, but would not affect restaurants that serve sodas.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/MNF619OSF4.DTL#ixzz0RfEhGzU6

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This is the next ruse by pols, tax the businesses and claim your not raising taxes on the people.

[TurtleUp]

Obama would say this is not a tax on the poor, any more than his “health care” socialism is a tax. These actions just increase what people pay and decrease how much they can buy with their remaining money. To a nuanced community organizer, that’s totally different from a tax.

[screaminsunshine]

95% of all Americans will get a tax cut. HAA HA HA Ho HoHEE HE HEEE Ha HAHAHAHAH. OHHH Ho Ho Ho.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[nd2bfree]

There is truth that 95% are getting a tax cut its just the gubmit is slicing a bigger piece off for themselves at all levels.

[BigFinn]

Yes, let's vote this progressive community organizing Obamacrat in for CA governor. He's all for taxing a Pepsi but overlooks blatant homosexual perversity displayed on SF city streets... i.e. this Sept. 25th is the Folsom Street Fair. They dress up in leather bondage outfits, whip each other in public and have sex in full view of the public. Now there's diversity and progressiveness.

This country has lost it's soul. God help us.

[LearsFool]

Go right ahead, Newsom. Texas is always happy to welcome the productive businesses and the non-perverts fleeing your city.

[anonsquared]

Hey Newsom,
HIV/AIDS is a severe health problem costing taxpayers billions. When are you going to charge the groups pushing the homosexual agenda?

[rsobin]

Next it will be stores that sell twinky’s and pork chops.The same people who want this also want all of us little people living in a 10 by 10 flat eating government gruel.

[OCCASparky]

Hmmmmm...the new tobacco, or the new cash cow? I don't recall hundreds of thousands of people dying of lung cancer from drinking Coke. New Coke, maybe....

[CreviceTool]

NEXT UP for San Fransicko: [from Wikipedia] San Francisco congestion pricing is a proposed traffic congestion user fee for vehicles traveling into the most congested areas of the city of San Francisco at certain periods of peak demand. The charge would be combined with other traffic reduction projects. The proposed congestion pricing charge is part of a mobility and pricing study being carried out by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority to reduce congestion at and near central locations and to reduce its associated environmental impacts, including cutting greenhouse emissions.[1][2] The funds raised through the charge will be used for public transit improvement projects, and for pedestrian and bike infrastructure and enhancements.[1][3]

This initiative is supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. To go into effect it will need approval at the local and state legislative levels.[1] As the New York congestion pricing scheme got stalled in 2008,[4][5] if approved, San Francisco would be the first city in the United States to implement a congestion charge,[6][7] similar to those existing in Singapore, London, Stockholm, and Milan.[1] The various scenarios considered were presented in public meetings held in December 2008, with final study results expected for late 2009.[6]

[Secret Agent Man]

When are we going to tax politicians?

We could have so many.

For all the hot air they breathe out.

For all the lies they tell.

For all the broken promises.

Any time they step in front of a microphone, use a teleprompter, hold a press conference, or gather together (because of a magnifying effect).

Any time they have a personal screwup that is reported on.

Any time they do something illegal.

Any time they use government resources for personal reasons.

Any time they run an ad on tv.

Any time they request tv or radio time. Especially if it’s FREE time they are asking for.

Any time they raise taxes.

Any time they raise or create ‘fees’ that just about everyone will pay, yet claim they aren’t raising taxes (stealth taxes via universal fees).

Any time they give themselves pay raises.

Any time they unknowingly or knowingly take away/erode more of your rights.

Any time they create a new tax or raise a tax, they not only get a politician tax, but they also have to be the first ones to pay the new/higher tax, even if they don’t do or buy the thing, or use the service, having its tax increased.

There are I am sure other places a politician tax could be levied. This was just a quick chain of thought.

[Gator113]

Having a soda=bad.

Having homosexual anal sex=no problem.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

” A soda tax has also come up in the national debate about health care reform as one way to help pay to insure more people.”

And Obama said “I will not raise your taxes one dime”

[444Flyer]

"Whether you like it our not!"

[libertarian27]

So many people quit paying cigarette taxes, they need another revenue - it truly is as simple as that....

[EGPWS]

Newsom wants to charge stores that sell sodas

Newsom wants everyone in San Fransisco to bend over and take it up the backside.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

It’s all for the good of “The people” comrade. :o)

[freespirited]

You gotta be some kind of idiot to compare tobacco to juice and soda.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

idiot and Gavin Newsom are synonymous