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On MSNBC, Kelly O'Donnell reports the White House is open to taxing soda and booze to pay for health care. Hmmm . . ."I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."Obama just poured grain alcohol on that promise and set it alight. MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall refers to "food deserts" where soda is the only beverage, claiming that...