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There's Nothing SWEET About the National Soda Tax
Reason ^ | August 23, 2014 | Baylen Linnekin

Posted on 08/23/2014 12:20:38 PM PDT by bamahead

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To: Slyfox

I always thought Rosa Delauro was proof that the Wicked Witch of the West did not die childless.

Years ago she & her fellow feminazis in the House attempted to invade NRA headquarters in northern Virginia. Police reminded them that they were on private property & could face arrest.

(Would like to be able to report that they then screamed “Property is theft!!” as they stormed off.)


41 posted on 08/23/2014 1:47:03 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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42 posted on 08/23/2014 1:55:04 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: bamahead
“When a two-liter cola is 99 cents and blueberries are over three dollars, something has gone very wrong,”

What's wrong is you should not have power you crazy nut.

43 posted on 08/23/2014 1:57:06 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: editor-surveyor

It’s been about three years. So far, so good. I got nothing against artificial sweeteners.


44 posted on 08/23/2014 1:59:49 PM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Sparklite
It’s been about three years. So far, so good. I got nothing against artificial sweeteners.

IIRC, most of the studies which made the link between artificial sweeteners and health effects had the rats in the experiments consuming the equivalent of about 40 cases of diet drinks a day. It would probably be fatal but the cause of death would be a bladder explosion.

45 posted on 08/23/2014 2:13:40 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: bamahead

Put her face on every can of soda and sales will cease that day.


46 posted on 08/23/2014 2:17:18 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Carthego delenda est
“When a two-liter cola is 99 cents and blueberries are over three dollars, something has gone very wrong,” DeLauro told attendees.

Forget the fact that taxing soda has nothing to do with the price of blueberries. Once again Democrats are ignorant of economics, but know full well how to extract cash from our pockets to their own benefit.

Bastards.

47 posted on 08/23/2014 2:23:19 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: bamahead

What is she gonna say/do when they pass a 5% ugly tax?


48 posted on 08/23/2014 2:28:02 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: bamahead
Lets pass an Ugly Tax. Better yet make it currency. She and Pelosi could pay off the entire national debt.
49 posted on 08/23/2014 2:39:57 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: virgil

——There’s no sugar in coke. They use HFCS.——

Not if that matters....

Sugar will be reported like guns.... Every gun is an “assault weapon”....

Every form of sugar is taxable sugar...


50 posted on 08/23/2014 2:45:19 PM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: blueplum

-——why should a person have to give up sugar and be forced to ingest artificial sweeteners?-——

I almost have come to the conclusion that artificial sweeteners may be worse for your health than HFCS ...


51 posted on 08/23/2014 2:48:03 PM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: bamahead

-——would lay a one-cent duty on every teaspoon of sugar in soft drinks and other beverages-——

The tax on a 2 liter coke would be $.57 per bottle...

Having spent 25 years in the business (screen name) I can tell you that type of tax levy would do exactly what the punitive tax on cigar industry did...kill it....

It would cost 10’s of thousands of lost jobs among many other repercussions ....

I would almost guarantee the taxes collected would not even break even....


53 posted on 08/23/2014 3:07:55 PM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Sparklite

Well, if you only expect to last a few years, I guess it won’t matter, but artificial sweeteners are among the worst abuses of your body.

That is why they are promoted. Killing us off is the primary goal of the elite here.


54 posted on 08/23/2014 3:43:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: bamahead

The same idiots that want to control your intake of Soda, and Tobacco, are (mostly) the same people that want to cut back on the drug war, and to legalize Marijuana.


55 posted on 08/23/2014 3:52:46 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: rey
The Journal had a piece next week ...

Are you a time traveler?

56 posted on 08/23/2014 4:29:14 PM PDT by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: bamahead

This would help the makers of soda pop kits but hurt bottled soda companies who would have to cut staffing to compensate for falling sales. Welcome back FIZZIES (or will they be taxed as well).


57 posted on 08/23/2014 5:09:17 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: bamahead

“The proposal is intended “to curb obesity, diabetes, and the resulting health care costs.””

This of course is exactly the kind of nanny state dictatorial behavior management when the Federal Government trys to take over healthcare it will only get worse as we lose more and more freedom to Washington unending crusade against the fundamentals of human nature itself.


58 posted on 08/23/2014 5:15:55 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


59 posted on 08/23/2014 7:55:26 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: willywill

I think its great. So many conservatives cheer at tobacco taxes also. I say we have a weigh in on April 15 and tax fat. iQ test also and tax stupid. Mirrors and tax ugly..

You can’t say yes to nanny state when it starts and then turn back.

I always remember a friend of my dad being so pro cigarette tax. I told him his fat ass was next. I told him I could quit smoking before he could loose 100 pounds. He didn’t think a 20 year old “boy” should talk to him that way. I told him this boy understood the slippery slope we were on.


60 posted on 08/23/2014 8:12:16 PM PDT by wgmalabama
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