[relictele]

Kleptocrats are interested only in the fifth and sixth words of the headline (including ‘Study’).

The rest is feel-good window dressing that would be ignored or ridiculed if ignorance were not the most urgent ‘public health’ problem in the nation.

[Red Badger]

Beverage tax would grab millions from the poor, do nothing to stop obesity

Stopping obesity is just the excuse. Grabbing the million$ is the objective.............

[Texas Eagle]

It's about time the poor started paying more in taxes.

Besides, it's not even their money. We pay for their EBT cards, welfare, WIC, medical care, housing, telephones, etc., etc., etc.

[pabianice]

Vermont would save a lot more money if it were not the country's worst state for drug abuse.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Our new Liberal Dweeb Democrat Governor here in PA wants to slap the state sales tax on Child Care Services.

Now THERE’S a move that’s really gonnna help those “working families”!

[sickoflibs]

RE:”One of the more unusual solutions to the state’s budget crisis is a proposed 2-cents-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks.
Sponsored by state Rep. Alison Clarkson, D-Woodstock, H.235 aims to raise about $34 million by taxing beverages like soda, fruit juice, teas and sports drinks.”

Author is probably talking about ‘fruit drinks’ not ‘fruit juices’

Fruit drinks are flavored water with sugar added because processed sugar is cheaper than fruit is.

[Graybeard58]

Illinois has had the “sugar tax” since 2009. Now the legislature and governor are talking about raising it again. That’s right, our “republican” governor.

[cicero2k]

Taxation sure discouraged smoking, much more than other methods.

[nothingnew]

While the tax would help fund Vermont’s obese budget...

Maybe THAT'S the obesity we should be talking about, BUDGETS nation wide.

FMCDH(BITS)

[VTenigma]

I’ll just shop in NH.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Raise taxes but never, ever consider cutting the fat out of the budget.

[Little Ray]

Not that I support another tax, but I’m okay with making “the poor” pay their “fair share.”

[CSM]

First they came for the druggies, then they came for the smokers, now it is time to get the soda drinkers! Next up, chocolate eaters and eventually those that will not exercise!

The tobacco warriors won, now they get to live with the empowerment that they handed their rulers. Enjoy it FReepers that celebrated your “win.” Enjoy your “Brave New World.”

[Covenantor]

So a 2 liter bottle of store brand soda, which sells for 79 cents in Maryland would have a tax of $1.26?

[TigersEye]

Study: Beverage tax would grab millions from the poor, do nothing to stop obesity

So, the university study agrees with the secret taxpayer funded gov. study done before this policy was recommended. ;-)

[MasterGunner01]

We extort from the upper classes and the middle classes, so how come the poor get a pass? No doubt about it, it is time to nail the poor with regressive taxes. The progressives will "feel their pain"...NOT. The progressives have insulated or exempted themselves so they could care less about the poor.