CRIKEY! Will someone PLEASE drop a house on her already?
How is it that the left has been able to tap into an unlimited supply of the people?!?
Posted on 08/02/2014 10:11:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced this week the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET Act), which aims to institute a tax of one cent per teaspoon—4.2 grams—of sugar, high fructose corn syrup or caloric sweetener.
The measure (HB 5279), introduced Wednesday says, “A 20-ounce bottle of soda contains about 16 teaspoons of sugars. Yet, the American Heart Association recommends that Americans consume no more than six to nine teaspoons of sugar per day.”
Even though the manufacturers of the sweet drinks are targeted to pay the tax, the text of the bill itself notes that the goal is to reduce public consumption through a price increase. …
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Hate to say this Martin, but Ron Wood is better looking.
What if ballots had pictures of the candidates on them?
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is living proof that some kinds of ugliness are not just skin-deep.
The sugar lobby will shred her
Rep. DeLauro. (Rep.: abbreviation of Reptile)
The Wooster Street Monster is more than happy to slap a regressive tax on the useful idiots who regularly vote for her. They know the money will just come back in the form of more entitlements.
Thus adding $10.90 to a ten pound sack of sugar. Who knows what it will do to the price of beer because malt will get it, too.
I was no fan of trans-fats and I’m glad to see them gone. Next on my list is HFCS...maybe should not be ingesting that crap either, so if she wants to tax it, FINE WITH ME. I’d like to see it gone one way or the other.
But leave sugar alone - as long as it’s real sugar there’s no harm in eating it.
LOL - You need to add Mick Jagger to your comparison.
She does proves that looks are DEFINITELY not a consideration when it comes to Democrats selecting their Reps.
I find taxing sugar, salt, and other essential commodities of a persons diet or life, unconstitutional. Maybe tax the artificial sweeteners.
How is it that the left has been able to tap into an unlimited supply of the people?!?
Can we tax ugly and stupid too? At first glance, I thought this was satire. I never met a dim who didn’t want another tax.
Better still is to tax traitorous Demonicrats for breathing. Let's hope that someday that tax is no longer used.
Just think of all the feral government DEA agents you could provide jobs for, and all the property you could steal under the asset forfeiture laws!
You forgot farts. They want to tax them too.
Does she intend to include High Fructose Corn Syrup? Inquiring minds want to know.
It was exactly this kind of thinking that sparked the original Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Wonder what the constituents of her own district think of this?
You want to increase our taxes because you're a scientific illiterate?
How conservative of you.
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” You want to increase our taxes because you’re a scientific illiterate? How conservative of you.”
I want that CRAP off the market. Sugar is JUST FINE.
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