New Jersey Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food

wcbstv,com ^ | Apr 30, 2008 6:39 pm US/Eastern | Christine Sloan

[mware]

This one isn't going over real well.

[benjamin032]

So why isn’t anyone suggesting the state spend less on other areas?

[2ndDivisionVet]

$12.86 for fries and a chicken wrap?! Glad I don’t live there! Oh, and when did beer and ice cream become “staples?”

[Parley Baer]

I can see it now. We are taxing fast food because it is unhealthy and it is putting a strain on our healthcare system. This will be like the tabacco tax.

[mware]

So why isn’t anyone suggesting the state spend less on other areas?

.....because the inmates are controlling Bedlam.

[kingattax]

stupid americans keep re-electing these evil fools who will tax and regulate until america is in the dumpster of history unless they are stopped.

[lesser_satan]

How will they define “fast food”?

[tflabo]

Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food 'Sin' Tax

How about it's a 'Sin to Tax Fast Food' is more appropriate.

[mware]

Glad my gall bladder and I gave up on fast food a decade ago.

My gall bladder is gone now, but I am still staying away from fast food.

[w1andsodidwe]

So why isn’t anyone suggesting the state spend less on other areas?

No you have it wrong, you must spend less and give more to the government, so they don;'t have to cut back. Oink!! Oink!!

[mware]

Wendy’s for one.

[tflabo]

Time for a new ‘Boston Tea Party’ like revolution. Throw these tax grabbers as legislatures overboard.

[dinodino]

Yeah, really! I mean, who needs ice cream?

[lesser_satan]

But what makes a restaurant a “fast food” place? Are Subway and Jimmy John’s considered fast food, or just places that fry stuff?

[benjamin032]

Of course, how silly of me!

[GeorgiaDawg32]

so I wonder how many of these concerned citizens were all for increased taxes on cigarettes..now that the gov’t is coming after THEM, it’s a NO NO..heh, we told ya so..

[Centurion2000]

$12.86? That's practically armed robbery for that food.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

If they want to tax everything that is unhealthy for us.. we sure could start a list..

1. Hollywood movies

[JRandomFreeper]

when did beer and ice cream become “staples?”

October 13, 1961.

/johnny/

[Biblebelter]

BARRY, BARRY, BARRY, here is a new elitist rant for you buddy. I am a bitter American clinging to my Bible, my guns, my antipathy toward illegal invaders, and clinging to my Big Mac and fries.