[IYAS9YAS]

It will impose a 1.5-cent tax per ounce for soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages include fruit drinks, sports drinks, flavored water, and energy drinks.

Hmmm. I smell lawsuit. Think about it. They're going to tax your 32-ounce fast food soda as 32 ounces of actual soda, but the cups are at least half full of ice.

[monkeyshine]

Next, in a bid to expand its budget and powers as all agencies try to do every year, the Department of Weights and Measures (they same agency that certifies gasoline pumps) will insist that they be able to fit every soda fountain with a counter to measure the amount of soda dispensed and calculate how much tax to charge.

Is there one facet of life that government doesn’t want to tax, regulate or subsidize?

[Svartalfiar]

Hmmm. I smell lawsuit. Think about it. They're going to tax your 32-ounce fast food soda as 32 ounces of actual soda, but the cups are at least half full of ice.

So if you eat in at a fast food place, usually you get your own drink. How do they determine the drink/ice ratio for that? And what about free refills?

[Alberta's Child]

I predict there will be no taxes on fast-food soda drinks.

McDonald's will sell you a cup for $1 and their soda won't cost anything.