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Freep This Poll (Should we tax soda pop?)
Parade ^

Posted on 07/29/2009 5:20:15 PM PDT by gitmo

http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/090726-the-push-to-expand-bottle-bills.html


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: moretaxes; softdrink; tax; taxes
Who institutes another tax when the economy is being torpedoed? Please FReep this poll on this tax.
1 posted on 07/29/2009 5:20:15 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: gitmo

Where’s the choice for “Hell no”?


2 posted on 07/29/2009 5:21:20 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: gitmo

Who are the morons voting yes? *Please tax us! Please! Please*


3 posted on 07/29/2009 5:22:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gitmo

I rarely think the stuff but am dead against the entire idea.

Who the hell wants to pay 15 bucks for a rootbeer float?


4 posted on 07/29/2009 5:24:22 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gitmo

Last week the Liberal hobby horse in Parade Magazine was that the government needs to create a “comprehensive” child care system for pre-schoolers. There is yet to be a Leftist bandwagon that Parade hasn’t jumped on.


5 posted on 07/29/2009 5:26:00 PM PDT by La Lydia ( Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: gitmo
You can "roll your own" until Sonya "NoSodaMayer" rules against it.


6 posted on 07/29/2009 5:27:52 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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think the stuff = drink the stuff


7 posted on 07/29/2009 5:28:36 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gitmo

These people are insane.......


8 posted on 07/29/2009 5:29:17 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: mylife
Who are the morons voting yes?

For those that think we are not being taxed enough. Send an extra donation in with your next state and federal return and leave the rest of us alone!

9 posted on 07/29/2009 5:29:17 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Huskrrrr

I agree!


10 posted on 07/29/2009 5:31:17 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gitmo
Take the poll
11 posted on 07/29/2009 5:33:11 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: gitmo

We should not tax soda. We should not cap trade, but we should cap Congresscritters.


12 posted on 07/29/2009 6:23:10 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
How about a 40% surtax on the salaries of all congress critters plus an income tax on all benefits such as ....
" Lets Tax your IRA, 401ks ?"

All Hail Queen Nancy's 757

The Jet is a USAF Boeing 757

*And they STILL want to talk about Sarah's clothing

*MADAME PELOSI*

Madame Pelosi wasn't happy with the small private jet that comes with the Speaker's job...no, Madame Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat 200 seat jet that could get her back to California without stopping!

Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone what Nancy's Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American Taxpayers, for the thousands of gallons of fuel every week.

Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California , cost to the taxpayers of about $60,000 one way!

As Joe put it, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday Night' Cost to us is another $60,000. Folks, that is $480,000 ? per month and that is an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000. No wonder she complains about the cost of this war... it might cramp her style and she is styling, on my back and yours.

I think of the military families in this country doing without and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of this country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing.

Madame Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires.
These people are nuts.
13 posted on 07/29/2009 7:26:27 PM PDT by Foolsgold ("We live in the greatest country in the world and I am going to change it" Barry O'boomarang 2008)
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To: gitmo

Might I suggest that if they really tax soda pop it could set off a firestorm and that might be a good thing?

What a ripe event to carry out a real true tea party (er soda party) in the spirit of 1776. Since the 1776 colonists got fed up with the excessive tax on tea they dumped it in the harbor to stop the tax revenue from getting to King George.

WE could then do the same thing - all across this country dump the pop in every river, lake, stream we can find and strangle the tax revenue and send a clear message to Washington that WE THE PEOPLE have had enough!

If the environmentalists start howling do it anyway and send a signal to them also that rebellion has started!


14 posted on 07/29/2009 7:32:52 PM PDT by conservativegramma (Palin has my vote: whoever the media hates I love)
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To: gitmo

Since we have so many “moral high ground” Americans supporting tax on tabbaco, I say yes! Let’s put sin taxes on everything the nanny staters hate! Sodas, beer, wine, snacks, fast food, resturant food...the list is endless. Sooner or later we’ll hit enough people that they will see the error of their fascist wannabe status.


15 posted on 07/30/2009 5:40:35 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: gitmo

Damn it, NO!!!!!

Tax Coke & Pepsi all you want but leave Dr Pepper ALONE!!!


16 posted on 07/30/2009 5:42:25 PM PDT by Stimpson_J_Cat
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Should we have a national bottle bill? (IOW, not an excise tax, a bottle deposit)
17 posted on 08/01/2009 5:19:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: gitmo

Only the kind with high fructose corn syrup.

Leave my diet soda alone.


18 posted on 08/01/2009 5:21:08 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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