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Let's tax caffeine, Utah legislator argues
The Salt Lake Tribune ^
| 03/12/2009
| Robert Gehrke
Posted on 03/16/2009 5:00:11 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
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 :)
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:54:12 AM PDT
by
chickpundit
(Palin '12)
To: Islander7
Every time we “joke” about absurd things like this, the Lib’s take it and run with it.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:55:17 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Te odeo, interfice te cochleare)
To: MarkL
"Frank wants to tax every cup of coffee you drink." Good Mormons don't drink coffee...donchaknow...
To: yankeedame
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?
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:35:36 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(If Liberals would pay their taxes, there would be no deficit..)
To: yankeedame
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?
To: thefrankbaum
That part where he said that the legislature was addicted to revenues kind of gave it away...
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03/16/2009 7:46:42 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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