Quit buying any sodas & kick their butts!
Why not just tax our couches since parking our fat tuckuses on them is harming our health?
"Just put up a sign on the country, 'Closed-Owner Gone Nuts!'"
Washington is a place of lunatics, and Obama's coronation has finally given them permission to be their true selves.
Maybe when they start taxing sitting on your fat ass, watching TV and being sheeple, the voters will finally feel threatened enough to rise up and throw them all out.
Time to Push Back Until! We have to limit the amount of money we will allow Congress to spend. It is our money, not theirs.
When they talk about socialism in the abstract, the population gets behind them and say “Right On Brother!” And why not? Tax the anonymous “rich man” and give the money to ME!!!
But pretty soon the truth outs. There aren’t enough “rich men” to squeeze to get all they want.
So they come after “you and me”. Tax your gas, tax your electricity, tax your beer, cigs and sodas. Tax every nickel you earn, every nickel you save, every nickel you spend.
If the Stupid Party (that would be the R’s) has the brains and guts to remind the populus of these “populist issues” and start a steady drumbeat of reminders to the populus that OBAMA is the reason everything including the air you breathe is more expensive — it could go well for them.
Unfortunately, the (R)s are every bit as addicted to the peoples’ money as are the Rats. So I’m pessimistic it’ll ever happen.
I think we may have been separated at birth!
I bet he’s chicken to increase the tax on alcohol.
[clueless on] Relax. This will only affect the 5% who make over $250,000/year. The rest of us won’t have out taxes raised a cent. Obama said so. [clueless off]
Out of control spending! The Sugar Tax affects minorities, woman and children most of all. Recalibrate those vending machines... pay for health care by using sugar, or ingest Acesulfame-K, Aspartame, Saccharin, Stevia, and Sucralose. Bring back Cyclamates.
It’s for the childrunz.
I drink regular soft drinks, about one daily. The day they pass such a tax, is the day I have bought my last one and will still with water, lemonaide, tea. And, sigh, I guess I’ll have to sell my stock in Pepsi...
Well....it’s about time something other than cigarettes was taxed! Cigarettes have been taxed to death to cover everything from sports arenas to SCHIP.
I’ve long said something like sugar or toilet paper should be taxed to pay for these things....the costs shouldn’t be saddled on just ONE consumer product...spread the burden.
I thought cigarette taxes were going to take care of that jiffy...
How about stopping the idiots who go to the emergency rooms for a pin prick, hangover,head lice,..etc.
Sheesh! Home remedies for that.
I come from a long line of family members if you went to a doctor it was serious. If you went to a hospital,chances are , you die.
Great grandparents lived to in their 90s.
I disagree completely with the Rats’ plan, but I understand why they would tax something considered unhealthy and high calorie. They figure unhealthy and/or high calorie foods/beverages add more weight which may lead to obesity and problems associated with that. That in turn means the government will have to pay more for health care.
Expect more new federal taxes on common retail items, and heavier taxation of existing ones --- tobacco taxes have already been raised, and you can expect gasoline to soon follow.
THey’re going after fruit juices now too... sugar is sugar, they say.
Heaven help this country.
Why not just have everyone weighed on 15 April? Then tax all the fat people.
I haven’t drank soda in many years and I don’t smoke either.
Seems to me I've heard that before. Maybe there's hope...
The Sugar Act: Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax ... This act, and the Currency Act, set the stage for the revolt at the imposition of the Stamp Act.