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It’s for the obese children, yaknow...
2 posted on
02/18/2010 5:10:54 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
Anyone who really believes that this has anything to do with “childhood obesity” might be doing too many recreational drugs.
3 posted on
02/18/2010 5:13:27 PM PST by
FlingWingFlyer
(If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
To: NormsRevenge
If they really want to raise money how about charge politicians $5 for every lie. That would fill the coffers in no time.
5 posted on
02/18/2010 5:14:30 PM PST by
highlander_UW
(Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
To: NormsRevenge
The tax would be paid by companies that bottle soda and make finished beverages or syrup for fountain drinks, sponsors said.LOL!
To: NormsRevenge
the land of Fruits and Nuts and Flakes never ceases to amaze.....
un-friggin-believable
7 posted on
02/18/2010 5:15:18 PM PST by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: NormsRevenge
Because Californians don’t pay enough taxes.
8 posted on
02/18/2010 5:17:34 PM PST by
Hugin
(Sarah Palin,: accept no substitutes!)
To: NormsRevenge
Who dreams up this dopey crap?
I'd be embarassed to even mention the idea.
It'll be interesting in restaurants and diners when the waitress puts 2 cents on the coffee bill.
9 posted on
02/18/2010 5:18:28 PM PST by
Cobra64
To: NormsRevenge
The soda pop tax is already a fact in Illinois.
11 posted on
02/18/2010 5:18:45 PM PST by
Graybeard58
("0bama's not just stupid; He’s Jimmy Carter stupid”. - Don Imus)
To: NormsRevenge
Just what California needs: more taxes. :)
12 posted on
02/18/2010 5:20:15 PM PST by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: NormsRevenge
I’m guessing Coke and Pepsi didn’t sweeten the Dems’ campaign donations enough.
21 posted on
02/18/2010 5:27:55 PM PST by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: NormsRevenge
Another case study of why CA is in the toilet.
1: Whole Nanny State aspect of the tax
2: The lie that it will be paid by bottlers
3: Not one cent of any revenue raised will be used to at least help get CA out of its fiscal hole but instead another used for a specific purpose whether the schools really need an obesity or not.
22 posted on
02/18/2010 5:28:16 PM PST by
C19fan
To: NormsRevenge
This cause ‘du jour’ is growing only too familiar. The government steps in and says we are doing this to help you, and what really happens is the they stomp on our toes and tell us that the pain beneficial..
24 posted on
02/18/2010 5:31:32 PM PST by
oyez
( damnant quod non intelligunt)
To: NormsRevenge
Gov’ts have to add and increase consumption taxes. They’ve over-milked the income taxes.
26 posted on
02/18/2010 5:37:09 PM PST by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: NormsRevenge
We should replace everyone in the capitol with meth-addicts. The behavior would be the same and they would be a lot cheaper to appease.
27 posted on
02/18/2010 5:37:11 PM PST by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
To: NormsRevenge
Just take the damn money and get it over with.
To: NormsRevenge
What a freakin' way out cool Utopian Nanny State warm fuzzy 'We Care' tax.
CA needs a Mac Attack Tax too:
31 posted on
02/18/2010 5:58:29 PM PST by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: NormsRevenge
Candy will be next.
They will soon use the lessons learned from taxing alcohol and tobacco. Huge tax revenues, and not a dime of the taxes used to reduce the existing tax burden on citizens.
The new revenues just disappear down the government rat hole.
32 posted on
02/18/2010 5:59:44 PM PST by
wrench
To: NormsRevenge
California Communists Party (formally the Democratic Party) at it again. The manufacture will just pass the cost on to us so that is another reason why California is the garbage dump of America. And what is so irritating is the dumb RAT voters that keep these insane nitwits in power.
33 posted on
02/18/2010 6:00:29 PM PST by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
This is ridiculous! My friends and I drank lots of soda pop, maybe 2 a day by junior high, and not one of us was fat! Some of us were too skinny! And most of us were allowed pop at home, not excessively, and were served nutritious meals, and our moms (or we) packed nutritious lunches. We ate some junk and high-calorie, high-carb food, too, some of the food from the school cafeteria. And I loved some of it!
The problem is lifestyle, not sugar in pop. We walked and got a lot of exercise. What are these obese kids doing? Out of a class of 30, there may have been one overweight kid on the average all through high school; the rest were normal or skinny. I won't deny there were some fat kids then.
It wasn't until I got to college (and less exercise) that dieting because a fad and kids started watching more what they ate. Even so, I can't recall one fat one at that university off the top of my head; maybe one roommate was slightly overweight.
The only parent I remember being seriously overweight was my mom, nor were any of my teachers overweight, maybe the jr high history teacher.
34 posted on
02/18/2010 6:00:44 PM PST by
Aliska
To: NormsRevenge
This is what will happen when government gets control of our health care. They’ll tax everything they deem unhealthy “for the children” while progressives beg for more.
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