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Posted on 10/13/2017 9:18:20 PM PDT by jfd1776
I’ve started making my own soda and never looked back. Get yourself a soda stream or knock off, some paintball canisters and a $20 adapter and you can make 40-50 liters of soda water for ~$3.50 fill-ups at a sporting goods store. It’ll cost a little more if you want to add syrups. Or, just pick up a tub of Tang from BJs or Costco and go nuts. Doesn’t taste exactly like orange soda but close enough.
I never buy soda at grocery stores, I got fat without it. LOL. I get a Coke when we go to In n Out burger, a couple of times a year I got fat by e as ting too much, mostlyn at home. I can’t blame Coke. I blame me.
They either drove across the county line or ordered online.
Who would have guessed that would happen?
I still haven’t seen any accounting for how much was collected and where the money is now....
Other than the captive audience where you bought sodas via a machine within the taxed district....no idiot would have gone to buy their six-pack or case of sodas in such a manner. To yank on their chain, people ought to suggest taxing the heck out of beef, dairy products and snacks...to help destroy grocery operations within their county. The naive nature of these folks amazes me.
I have a friend who puts dry ice into his empty Soda Stream CO2 bottle and he is good to go for more servings of soda. I have a Soda Stream and it makes a great grape soda using Kool Aid and Splenda.
They’re not so much naive as deliberately economically blind. They have a worldview that is based in fantasy and they don’t let facts or logic get in the way of maintaining that delusional worldview. It’s part of the democrat DNA that raising taxes is a good thing. Cutting spending is a bad thing. Elected officials an bureaucrats know better than anyone else what’s best for the country. Guns are bad. Gun control is good. All white people have a special advantage over black people (there may be some truth in this if you consider a work ethic a special advantage) etc.
And they will not let facts, logic or reason pry them off of their core delusional beliefs. And better still their voters share these delusions. A lot easier to blame whitey for your lack of money than blame yourself even though you dropped out of school st 14 to have your first dependent chile. Spend most of your waking hours high or drunk spend every penny you get on immediate gratification. Etc.
The writer has to be kidding, right? OR do you people up north allow your county to have a board that outright confiscates your goods? Boy, I would start letting my feet do my voting to and I mean rat now..
Well, eartick... yes, that’s MY name for them.
The formal name is the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
but I’ve always thought Confiscators was more appropriate, so that’s the term I usually use when referring to them.
Well said. But the idiots will not see it that way.
You nailed it on the head. And, just to add, anyone who thinks differently and opposes them is racist.
and with a peculiar target list of products, no cash register system could be designed to accurately collect it, so the tax is an administrative nightmare for businesses.
They were going to pay for Obamacare with unreported income but it just drove it further underground.
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