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Only liberal morons could think this is a good idea.
What’s next? Tax bread? Air?
It was just too easy.
Turns federal food stamp dollars into state tax receipts!
If they cared about health they’d ban using food stamps to buy sodas.
It’s a money-making liberal sham like all liberal schemes.
“When a two-liter cola is 99 cents and blueberries are over three dollars, something has gone very wrong,” DeLauro told attendees.
The founding fathers evidently forgot “no soda shall cost less than blueberries” amendment.
There’s no sugar in coke. They use HFCS.
Ironically, government interference in the marketplace has contributed to this “problem” that liberals want to “fix” with more government interference. (Because free-markets, and individual choice are simply not acceptable options.)
Protectionism for the U.S. sugar industry has resulted in greater use of HFCS in the soda (pop) industry. HFCS (according to many scientists) are more likely to cause obesity, than cane or beet sugar.
So ... you’ll have one law (protectionism) driving up the cost of sugar — and another law putting an additional tax on products containing (mostly) the HFCS substitute.
Anyone care to guess what the next round of government interventions will involve?
Totally unexpected.
FURDL!! Any “Republican” going along with this crap is a fat communist basturd.
Tax us to Hell so they can pay the sugar growers huge subsidies to flood our markets with cheap sugar. Then tax us to Hell again when we buy products made with that cheap sugar.
How about we just shut off all tax subsidies to sugar growers?
We have had such a tax since 2009, here in Illinois. Now they want to add a national tax.
I’ve got an even better idea, since schools are in the government domain anyway, push to keep Physical Education classes in session every year of school. Personally, I think it was a great way to have fun and get introduced to various sports, and keep in decent shape, as I worked out over the summer to score better on my mile run the following year.
why should a person have to give up sugar and be forced to ingest artificial sweeteners?
/Naught
The Nazis are at it again. The idiots in this country just continue to let them get away with it. Freakin’ scumbag politicians TAXING US for our own good. It’s a wonder there are still any Brooklyn Bridges left out there to sell.
An obsevation while having a polish dog and soda while the wife shops at Costco..... < p>Have yet to see an overweight person get a diet soda from the drink dispenser. Skinny people, average weight people, slightly overweight people sometimes select diet drinks, but the real large ones never do?
I used to drink Dr Pepper a lot, but the doctor told me I had high blood sugar, so I stopped. Now I drink diet green tea instead of water. My blood sugar plummeted and is now normal. Plus, green tea has a lot to recommend it healthwise. Win, win.
There is already a huge federal tax on sugar.
What's wrong is you should not have power you crazy nut.