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Obama Economist: Taxing Junk Food Will Help Prevent Fiscal Cliff
Godfather Politics ^
| November 26, 2012
| Philip Hodges
Posted on 11/26/2012 4:04:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I would consider this to be a regressive tax on the poorest among us. The leftists have no shame.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:08:23 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
did they include a tax on Christamas sweaters for pet unicorns?
that could help.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:09:00 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:10:44 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is not about raising revenue, it’s about punishing behavior they don’t like.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:11:17 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Everything but broccoli will be taxed.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:15:06 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: GeronL
They can take my life but they can never
take my Twinkies!
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:15:06 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:17:53 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Happy 10th FR birthday to meeeeeeeeee)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“In fact, he was surprised that Americans didnt yet have a tax on carbon and energy, considering that carbon and energy usage is directly related to the solar cycles that affect global temperatures”
And how precisely is that related Larry?
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:18:40 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: tet68; Twinkie
The last twinkie is a freeper....
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:18:48 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Listen folks, these bastards are going to try to tax everything. They are simply NEVER going to cut spending.
You are already seeing the rationale building for nothing but tax increases.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:20:31 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: tet68
Oops, sorry, the Twinkies are already effectively removed from the market.
Only the very wealthy or very extravagant may have access to them now....
Taxing “junk food” as a revenue source is the equivalent of spitting in the ocean. The tsunami thus created will in all probability escape any notice.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:23:39 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(Bronco Bama - the cowboy who whooped up and widened the stampede.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I will probably catch a lot of flack for saying this, but the proposed junk food tax is one of several situations where when we don’t control ourselves, our meddling government steps in and does it for us.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Well, they reached the "fiscal cliff" when it came to taxing gasoline, cigarettes, yachts and whatever else they have tried to tax out of existence.
Might as well try food.
We tried to warn people.
The next thing that will be taxed is the air that you breathe - oh, wait - it already is.
Never mind.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:29:44 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'm thinkin' Ole Larry's had a few Twinkies hisself...
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:32:55 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Hound of the Baskervilles
where when we dont control ourselves, our meddling government steps in and does it for us. What part of Art 1, Sec 8 of the Constitution of the United States gives Congress the authority to do that?
/johnny
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Go ahead with the Twinkie tax.
Laffer will be laughing.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:39:08 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: CountryClassSF
Smokers have been telling us for years that something WE love will be taxed and punished by the government someday soon. The Left never stops.
Before you know it, there’ll be a tax on mountain climbing equipment.
But AIDS... heck, the gov’t will encourage you to get that.
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:48:58 PM PST
by
Marie
("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One just doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry...
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posted on
11/26/2012 4:51:44 PM PST
by
metesky
(Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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