Posted on 08/18/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
Five or 10 years from now, Americans will look at cheap, sugary drinks the way they now look at smoking on airplanes and in restaurants as a really bad idea.
Cook County, having recently implemented a tax on sweetened beverages, is at the forefront of this movement to encourage people to transition to healthier drinks. But the countys leadership role is in jeopardy. The beverage industry and retailers are pushing hard to repeal this tax. We cant think of a worse idea.
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No it wont!
I think sugar is evil. Refined sugar is virtually a metabolic poison. But there is no “second hand” soda pop. People are free to give themselves insulin resistance all day long.
Wait till they ban aspartame. That will cause more than a ripple of outcry.
Unless somebody burps.
Smoking & soda are out. Weed is in. Beam me up!
Ah, yes. The government brown shirts have now decided that drinking soda pop isn’t to their liking. Soda pop out of favor with the government and, of course, this is for your own good too. So to help you they have decided to start placing their heavy jackboot on your neck to “encourage you” not to drink the stuff.
There’s a black market opportunity I could get on board with.
“Drinking soda pop will one day be like smoking on an airplane”
Wanna bet?
I actually switched back to sugar (in very limited amounts).
Artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve never gotten pop in my nose when someone else was drinking it.
Liberty until I am taxed to pay for those folk's self inflicted health care needs. There is the quandary.
Ain't that the truth.
If we are at the point of outlawing bad ideas, then outlaw reading the inanity that shows up in the Chicago Sun Times every day too.
[[Five or 10 years from now, Americans will look at cheap, sugary drinks the way they now look at smoking on airplanes and in restaurants as a really bad idea.]]
Why is that? Because people will get second hand diabetes?
” . . . movement to encourage people to transition to healthier drinks . . .”
Total bull-pucky - it’s Cook County, they’d tax the air you breathe if they could figure out a way to monitor it and invent an excuse to rationalize its introduction as a favor they’d be doing you. It doesn’t matter how much sweetner a drink has, whether it’s natural or artificial, it gets hit with a penny an ounce tax that just perpetuates their corrupt machine.
Doesn’t this soda tax exempt persons on welfare and food assistance who are purchasing potentially taxable drinks from being assessed the tax? It seems to me that somewhere along the line, I read that the soda taxes that was created by one of the states had exempted those on food stamps and public assistance.
I don’t drink sodas every day, but I will be &*(^(^%&% if I give them up just to please some health Nazi. If it means the difference between checking out at 75 versus 80, I’m OK with that. Life without an occasional root beer isn’t worth living.
Your decision. But it is *their* decision whether to throw you in jail, or take your money, for your decisions. And, we voluntarily (and unnecessarily) gave them that right to do so.
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