A national soda tax is needed to reduce obesity and save lives

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20141209-column.html ^ | Dec. 8, 2014 | David Lazarus

[GraceG]

TAX EVERYTHING!!!!

CONTROL FREAKS DEMAND IT!

[easternsky]

Not only can they buy their soda with EBT cards, in California they do not have to pay the crv taxes on sodas.

[Texas Eagle]

It's also, as we've learned from taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, a highly effective method of influencing behavior that carries high social costs.

That muffled voice you hear is Eric Garner shouting from the grave, "Amen, bro!"

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Time for national soda tax, raise the gas tax and I’m sure they can come up with some more “common sense” taxes. By common I mean if you spend all your time kissing “liberal” butt. By liberal I mean control freak.

[JudyinCanada]

How does ripping people off a few more cents for a soda bring down the calorie content? What a scam.

[Texas Eagle]

Apparently Jonathan Gruber has changed his name to David Lazarus.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What America REALLY needs is a law that “taxes the hell out of politicians”. It’s time those buffoons put THEIR OWN MONEY where their big mouth is.

[FatherofFive]

No. Just ban sugar, tobacco and alcohol.

[VRWC For Truth]

We need a tax on tax proposing lawmakers.

[FlingWingFlyer]

National soda tax, then the national sugar tax, then the national candy tax, then the national chocolate tax, then the national bubble gum tax, then the national...

Wake up America! The out of control, political ___holes have come to take all of your money!!!

[Vaquero]

Should have left you for dead...Lazarus.

[InterceptPoint]

The libs are not using their very best pseudo-science argument:

Reducing soda consumption would reduce FIZZ and, as we all know, the chemical that creates FIZZ and escapes into the atmosphere when you open a can of Coke or Pepsi is the deadly gas CO2.

We are all going to die if we don’t give up our pop.

[Celtic Conservative]

“Yeah, I remember back in ‘16 when I started runnin’ bootleg Fresca from south of the border. Those were the days, son!”

Quotations from the near future.

CC

[saleman]

Alcohol and tobacco taxes are referred to as “sin taxes”.
Are we to believe that a can of pepsi falls into the same category?

How about twinkies? Chocolate?

I mean, where does it end?

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The short answer is. I doesn’t. Hope all you nanny state’ers
are happy(not you necessarily). “First they came for the tobacco...”

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Nanny nanny nanny state!

[unlearner]

We need a national tax on liberalism to save lives and reduce stupidity.

[JaguarXKE]

We need a national stupidity tax to reduce liberalism.

[PROCON]

Nanny state ping!

[LostInBayport]

Alcohol and tobacco taxes are referred to as "sin taxes". Are we to believe that a can of pepsi falls into the same category? How about twinkies? Chocolate? I mean, where does it end?

It ends when we are all completely, hopelessly miserable with anything that brings enjoyment of any kind out of reach for anyone who is not part of the elites. And even then liberals will still be b##ching about everything.

[Dutch Boy]

Worked for cigarettes. Why not soda. (/sarc)