Let's tax caffeine, Utah legislator argues

The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 03/12/2009 | Robert Gehrke

[chickpundit]

They shouldn’t be taxing health food. Coffee is loaded with anti-oxidants, and reportedly helps lower risk of Parkinson’s, type two diabetes, and helps prevent asthma attacks:

http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food

If this catches on, we might have to start Coffee parties around the nation ... out of my cold, dead hands :)

[Dead Corpse]

Every time we “joke” about absurd things like this, the Lib’s take it and run with it.

[Getsmart64]

"Frank wants to tax every cup of coffee you drink."

Good Mormons don't drink coffee...donchaknow...

[Balding_Eagle]

I don’t smoke, so the cig taxes don’t affect me. I don’t drink coffee, so these won’t after me.

Yeah, why not tax caffine?

[Publius Valerius]

Frank said his intent initially was just to target caffeinated sodas and other cold beverages. . . . So in light of that, if we're really going to find a revenue stream on something addictive, why not cold caffeine?"

I interpret this to mean that coffee and (hot) tea would not be taxed. Do I read this correctly?

[Old Professer]

That part where he said that the legislature was addicted to revenues kind of gave it away...