Posted on 12/16/2008 5:15:40 AM PST by shortstop
The “sheeple” will never say “enough” because this is all done through incrementalism. These taxes creep up on people so they don’t notice. As far as their “freedom being offended”, most don’t realize what freedom is.
I work with Sheeple who would read this story and say, “I don’t care, I only drink diet soda.” They are so lacking in the skill of reasoning that they can’t see two steps down the road when something they DO eat or drink will either be banned or taxed. It makes me crazy.
Non-diet soda.
When it moves to non-light beer it’ll be revolution.
NY offends just about everything.
“I work with Sheeple who would read this story and say, “I don’t care, I only drink diet soda.”
...there is a definite “if it doesn’t affect me, who cares” attitude. Bread and circuses are supplied on a local level to keep people’s head in the sand. Government education doesn’t help.
RE The obesity tax must be resisted.
NYS is mostly government jobs, disability and service sector like grocery store clerks that service those other groups. Hillary promised to create jobs but generated only government jobs, federal spending, losing any private sector jobs. NYS already has socialized type health insurance, forced recycling and bottle deposit law. This seems pretty unimportant. I also notice the Asian immigrants in NYC that own businesses ignore the taxes and rules, make their own rules. Apparently the NYS socialist empire requires voluntary compliance.
I was just thinking, how is this anything new they’ve been doing it with cigarettes for for 30 years or more.
Once we have universal health care the gov’t will have a stake in how well you maintain yourself. You can expect all sorts of coercive taxation then.
Simply put, this isn’t an “obesity tax.” This is a tax on “unpopular foods.” If it were an obesity tax, it would tax fat people.
I wonder if there’s anything that big government leftist don’t think is fair game for additional taxes?
Mark
How many jobs will be lost in the soft drink industry when people are buying less of it? Unemployment will go up and then Paterson and the rest of the politicians will blame it on the Bush legacy.
More unintended consequences from the great unwashed.
Less people will drink soda so the city will bring in less sales tax from soda.
Just like cigarettes. Couple of billion dollar a year industry for people who are “pro choice” and choose to smoke and they take the choice away and along with it all the tax revenue.
We The People agree that the government has a vested interest in what we put into our bodies. This tax is just the logical extension of that.
When Upstate votes for its own state.
Put him in town square for flogging.
He is just retaliating at people who laughed at the skit that SNL did making fun of him.
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