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Why not tax sugar sodas?

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Quote Originally Posted by mmac66:

I drink a lot of soda.........I know it isn't good for me but it's really my only vice. I'm also not a fat ass, I've run multiple marathons and I am in very good shape. I'm also 43 years old, so I do have to "work" to remain thin.

I am wholeheartedly against taxing soda. Not because I drink it either. I'd rather the government let me live my freaking life. Like several have said in here, where does it end.........candy, chips, fried chicken as opposed to grilled chicken? Also, will I start getting tax credits for exercising? Maybe I can get them on a per mile run basis.......if I thought for even one millisecond that the government cared more about my health than my pocketbook my position might change.......but that isn't the case. Everything is done in the "interest of public health and safety"......it's like speeding tickets on deserted roads on the way to work at 7am where the speed limit is artificially low. It doesn't have anything to do with safety; it's about revenue. Hell, to be completely honest, if the fucking government just said it was about revenue, I wouldn't have as big a problem with this tax as saying they are concerned about our health and healthcare costs.........ugh.

 

And by the way, I completely support taxing religous organizations

  Very well put, mmac. 

 

 
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Coming to Albany NY soon:

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Quote Originally Posted by chump:

The country does NOT need to raise money ... Washington needs to shrink government, spend less and undo the regulations that are strangling industry in this country or the country is on a sure course of financial disaster ............... less tax = more tax revenue, but that is hard for a Democrat to understand !!!


based on your location, you've seen first hand what government can do

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Raise money, f#(k,   we just print create or  computerize more of it these days..........

we are circling the drain......try to tax that!

"Tyranny of the majority"...

 
 
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Let's cut to the chase and tax FAT. If you're unhealthy and have pre-existing conditions, you definitely should pay more than someone who is in shape. What's next, the young and healthy subsidize the life insurance of the old and sickly.

This is a disease, give us our country back.
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