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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: Congress Should Consider Federal Tax on Soda Pop
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| July 20, 2012
| Kendra Alleyne
Posted on 07/22/2012 4:55:55 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Congress should consider a tax on its members, since they’re the ones who vote for all the spending. And they get outrageous pensions.
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:41:47 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
DeLauro is just looking for an opportunity to raise taxes. Obesity-wise, juice = soda:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-24/news/ct-met-war-on-fruit-juice-20120524_1_juice-products-association-juice-consumption-juice-industry
In response, University of North Carolina global nutrition professor Barry Popkin cited six other studies that show correlations between increased fruit juice consumption and increased risk of obesity and diabetes.
“There are no studies that show the opposite that drinking a glass or two of fruit juice each day will have positive long-term health benefits on weight or diabetes,” added Popkin, author of “The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race.”
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posted on
07/22/2012 6:47:53 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
TSR, you can bet your bottom dollar that every step of the soda and/or juice manufacturing process is already squeezed (taxed) to the limit.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:01:23 AM PDT
by
metesky
(Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
To: metesky
TSR, you can bet your bottom dollar that every step of the soda and/or juice manufacturing process is already squeezed (taxed) to the limit.
While everyone is screaming about how heavily taxed the rich are, nobody notices how heavily taxed the rich owned manufacturing process is.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:05:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
And in time, she’ll be pushing for a juice tax.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:05:40 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: eCSMaster
I say we all pay an extra tax to slap Rosa, Michelle, and any other politician who tries to control our lives through taxation!
46
posted on
07/22/2012 7:16:46 AM PDT
by
IslamE
(epiphany)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it was already in the 0bamacare bill.
47
posted on
07/22/2012 7:34:57 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: All
Hey, this is the logical next step. Cigarettes, soda, candy, and fast food. No surprise here.
Hey, all you smoker haters, your turn will soon be coming up. Hope you enjoy what you’ve enabled,and even supported. Soon the beast will be digging into your pocketbook, then into your personal lives.
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posted on
07/22/2012 7:47:50 AM PDT
by
383rr
(Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither; GUN CONTROL= SLAVERY)
To: eCSMaster
beauty might be only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone...
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posted on
07/22/2012 8:06:24 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
This delauro thing is one sickening puppy. I am amazaed how this pinheaded, misshapen, grotesque, mental-midget communist is able to form a sentence. People actually voted for this anti-human mess?
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posted on
07/22/2012 8:20:50 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I think whenever someone is asked a question about supporting more gun control, one should point to this asinine commentary by one of the representatives and ask back, do you think we need less gun control because of a government run by people like this?
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posted on
07/22/2012 8:33:23 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Tax this...tax that!
The only reason that the politicians want to tax everything to force people to follow the dictates of the “food police” is to do nothing more than raise more taxes so the government can:
Bring in more tax money for the coffers.
Expand some bureaucratic agency to enforce the new tax.
Expand control over the public.
Appease liberal women (mainly liberal women) in thinking that the government really makes them safe and saves the public from dangerous freedoms and freedom of choice.
Assures that liberal women will always vote for the Democrats who “protect” us from ourselves.
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posted on
07/22/2012 9:01:48 AM PDT
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
To: hal ogen
RATS is as RATS does...
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posted on
07/22/2012 9:31:43 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
how about just making soda an ineligible purchase on food stamps and ebt cards-
a bad choice problem eliminated for 46 MILLION Americans now on food stamps. School is gonna train kids to love white skim milk, anyway (fat chance, pun intended)
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posted on
07/22/2012 9:34:38 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
And maybe, quite frankly," she said,
"one of the things that we ought to look at and
one of the things we ought to consider is a soda tax.
"Quite frankly", I have a better idea Rep. DeLauro.
Looking at you Rosa, what I think "we ought to consider is a" ...
UGLY TAX!
You alone could fund the US Gubmint for a day with an 'Ugly Tax'.
And with an 'Ugly Tax' on all (cough) 'progressive women' combined, we could eliminate the U.S. National Debt in a year!
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posted on
07/22/2012 9:57:11 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Never mess with an old man. He won't fight you he'll just kill you.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Congress should tax its members for blatant stupidity. The Treasury would rake in millions from the 535 idiots that roam the Capitol halls. Make sure the law includes the congressional staffs and all executive departments and agencies.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
But I will tell you that if youre paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you dont need a rocket scientist to tell you what youre going to buy, DeLauro said. Youre going to go for the 79 cents.So she is essentially calling for a tax on lower income people.
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posted on
07/22/2012 11:28:26 AM PDT
by
Focault's Pendulum
(If Obama was any more thin skinned, he'd have a receptacle end: Dennis Miller)
To: Dr. Sivana
You and I did what we could to prevent Rosa from being elected.
She's probably just trying to raise revenue to fund her national diapercare scheme.
The GOP is sort of in control in the House. Can't the GOP at least adopt a House rule to require the wicked witch of New Haven to wear a burka whenever she appears in public? Or at least a bag over her head?
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posted on
07/22/2012 1:22:28 PM PDT
by
BlackElk
(Dean of Discipline/Tomas de Torquemada Gentleman's Society: Roast 'em!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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