[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This is the next ruse by pols, tax the businesses and claim your not raising taxes on the people.

[TurtleUp]

Obama would say this is not a tax on the poor, any more than his “health care” socialism is a tax. These actions just increase what people pay and decrease how much they can buy with their remaining money. To a nuanced community organizer, that’s totally different from a tax.

[screaminsunshine]

95% of all Americans will get a tax cut. HAA HA HA Ho HoHEE HE HEEE Ha HAHAHAHAH. OHHH Ho Ho Ho.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[BigFinn]

Yes, let's vote this progressive community organizing Obamacrat in for CA governor. He's all for taxing a Pepsi but overlooks blatant homosexual perversity displayed on SF city streets... i.e. this Sept. 25th is the Folsom Street Fair. They dress up in leather bondage outfits, whip each other in public and have sex in full view of the public. Now there's diversity and progressiveness.

This country has lost it's soul. God help us.

[LearsFool]

Go right ahead, Newsom. Texas is always happy to welcome the productive businesses and the non-perverts fleeing your city.

[anonsquared]

Hey Newsom,
HIV/AIDS is a severe health problem costing taxpayers billions. When are you going to charge the groups pushing the homosexual agenda?

[rsobin]

Next it will be stores that sell twinky’s and pork chops.The same people who want this also want all of us little people living in a 10 by 10 flat eating government gruel.

[OCCASparky]

Hmmmmm...the new tobacco, or the new cash cow? I don't recall hundreds of thousands of people dying of lung cancer from drinking Coke. New Coke, maybe....

[CreviceTool]

NEXT UP for San Fransicko: [from Wikipedia] San Francisco congestion pricing is a proposed traffic congestion user fee for vehicles traveling into the most congested areas of the city of San Francisco at certain periods of peak demand. The charge would be combined with other traffic reduction projects. The proposed congestion pricing charge is part of a mobility and pricing study being carried out by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority to reduce congestion at and near central locations and to reduce its associated environmental impacts, including cutting greenhouse emissions.[1][2] The funds raised through the charge will be used for public transit improvement projects, and for pedestrian and bike infrastructure and enhancements.[1][3]

This initiative is supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. To go into effect it will need approval at the local and state legislative levels.[1] As the New York congestion pricing scheme got stalled in 2008,[4][5] if approved, San Francisco would be the first city in the United States to implement a congestion charge,[6][7] similar to those existing in Singapore, London, Stockholm, and Milan.[1] The various scenarios considered were presented in public meetings held in December 2008, with final study results expected for late 2009.[6]

[Secret Agent Man]

When are we going to tax politicians?

We could have so many.

For all the hot air they breathe out.

For all the lies they tell.

For all the broken promises.

Any time they step in front of a microphone, use a teleprompter, hold a press conference, or gather together (because of a magnifying effect).

Any time they have a personal screwup that is reported on.

Any time they do something illegal.

Any time they use government resources for personal reasons.

Any time they run an ad on tv.

Any time they request tv or radio time. Especially if it’s FREE time they are asking for.

Any time they raise taxes.

Any time they raise or create ‘fees’ that just about everyone will pay, yet claim they aren’t raising taxes (stealth taxes via universal fees).

Any time they give themselves pay raises.

Any time they unknowingly or knowingly take away/erode more of your rights.

Any time they create a new tax or raise a tax, they not only get a politician tax, but they also have to be the first ones to pay the new/higher tax, even if they don’t do or buy the thing, or use the service, having its tax increased.

There are I am sure other places a politician tax could be levied. This was just a quick chain of thought.

[Gator113]

Having a soda=bad.

Having homosexual anal sex=no problem.

[444Flyer]

"Whether you like it our not!"

[libertarian27]

So many people quit paying cigarette taxes, they need another revenue - it truly is as simple as that....

[EGPWS]

Newsom wants to charge stores that sell sodas

Newsom wants everyone in San Fransisco to bend over and take it up the backside.

[freespirited]

You gotta be some kind of idiot to compare tobacco to juice and soda.

[ElenaM]

I must confess a delicious enjoyment of the growing assault on sugar, fat, etc. Back when folks decided to demonize my particular form of pleasure I predicted that this day would come sooner than later. The howls of rage are falling on deaf ears here. If you have the right to dictate what I must pay the state to enjoy my legal product of choice, you have no ground to protest when your particular pleasure is similarly attacked.

Sometimes being right is both fun and sad.

(The general “you,” not specific.)

[samtheman]

Read the comments at sfgate. Pretty interesting. 10 - 1 against this commie whore newscum.

[The Great RJ]

I can’t wait for organized crime to start bootlegging sodas to avoid the nanny taxes. Between cigarettes and now soda the Mafia can probably now make more money bootlegging these products than selling illegal drugs.

[SunkenCiv]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will introduce legislation this fall that would charge a fee to retailers that sell sugary beverages.

Strange that huge excise taxes are levied on tobacco because of the health problems associated with its use, but *nothing* on activities which spread AIDS.

[SunkenCiv]

Governor Paterson proposes 'Obesity Tax,' a tax on non-diet sodas
by Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett
with Edgar Sandoval and Erica Pearson
Daily News Albany Bureau
Sunday, December 14th 2008

Gov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, will propose an "obesity tax" of about 15% on nondiet drinks. This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 - even as the same size bottle of its calorie-rich alter ego would go for $1.15. Paterson's budget also calls for a 3% cut in education spending, a $620-a-year tuition hike at SUNY and a $600 increase at CUNY - and about $3.5 billion in health care cuts, a source said. The Democratic governor will not call for a broad-based income tax boost, but he will push to restore the sales tax on clothing and footwear... State employees again will be asked to forgo their 3% raises next year and defer five days' pay until they leave their jobs, the source said. In all, Paterson will propose about $9 billion in cuts, $4 billion in new taxes and fees, and $1.5 billion in nonrecurring revenue, a second source said. The so-called obesity tax would generate an estimated $404 million a year. Milk, juice, diet soda and bottled water would be exempt from the tax... Public health advocates welcomed news of the tax, saying it would help the fight against childhood obesity. "Raising the price of this liquid candy will put children and teens on a path to a healthier diet," said Elie Ward of the American Academy of Pediatrics of New York State.

[and now, the buried lead:] The Paterson administration also announced steps yesterday to expand the state's social services net, including a 30% increase in welfare payments over three years starting January 2010, increased money for food banks and expanded access to the state's Family Health Plus program. Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.