Tax Soda: It's the New Tobacco

[MonkeyMonk]

Opinion News | OUR VIEW; SODA-POP 'SIN TAX?' TRY EDUCATION.(Editorials) | Newser

This concept is becomming more and more prevalent.
There is another editorial that I scanned in at this link page 1, post #7
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/forum-news-help-testing-area/8039-testing-photo-resizing.html

 

[SpaceCadet]

"soft drinks even have a lung cancer equivalent: diabetes"

wtf?!

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Opinion News | OUR VIEW; SODA-POP 'SIN TAX?' TRY EDUCATION.(Editorials) | Newser

This concept is becomming more and more prevalent.
There is another editorial that I scanned in at this link page 1, post #7
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/forum-news-help-testing-area/8039-testing-photo-resizing.html

Nice post Monkey--it is incredible how taxing gets justified--this is a very good example--thanks for the post--Sun

 

[MonkeyMonk]

Yeah, I fear that this soft drink tax will be the first of many new "fat" taxes because just like analogs, people will switch... choose diet over regular. Then, there will be some other justification to tax all soda pop... bad for teeth or something... Then, the tax will become a broad spectrum sugar tax... and look out candy bars and bakery goods...

Health will become the focus of new taxes, yet the Health insurance industries are proposing a cut-off age of 70yrs. for any and all surgeries. The Ever Rising Health Care Cost, has to be Cut off Now. | NowPublic News Coverage

We are rapidly losing the principals America was founded on... Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness and the concept that one's own dwelling was protected from intrusion.

 

[taz3cat]

Monkeymonk, you are so right. Our freedom as erroded over the last 30 years , it is almost unbeliveable. I beleive this si what the Boston Tea Party was all about, just to damn much tax.

I don't now how this will work, one group or another has tried to ban all artifical sweetners. I guess they will tax diet soda because it is not good for us because of the artifical sugar.

CAN'T WIN FOR LOSING, they will get their last drop of blood one way are another.

 

[MonkeyMonk]

On the ch9 news tonight one group is advocating we all send Tea Bags to the White House. Wonder if it will catch on?

 

[fenez]

I tell my kids that if this were the 1700s there would be riots in the streets will all the taxes being imposed. This is just another case of us being taxed without any reason other than the gov. needing to keep the money eating machine that they have created rolling along with no regard for it's citizens.

 

[Chuffer]

Nonsmokers don't object when tobacco is taxed mercilessly, so I say bring on the crazy "fat" taxes, and maybe the gov't won't need tobacco tax revenue so much. See how the nonsmokers like it. All hail the tyranny of the ascetics!

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

Damn!

I'm an (x) smoker, and I'm fat...... Washington's just out to get me....

If it's immoral, fattening, or FUN - the gov't will tax it or make it illeagal!

 

[jamie]

Did you see the piece underneath that one?

Utah Considers Caffeine Tax

Mar 13, 09 12:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – After seeing multiple proposals to raise the tax on cigarettes fail, one Utah legislator has set his sights on another addictive substance: caffeine. Rep. Craig Frank has initiated a yearlong study on the impact of such a tax, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. If it can fly anywhere, Utah might be the place. The Mormon church already frowns on "hot drinks."

Frank had initially intended to cover only caffeinated sodas but has since come to consider all forms of the substance. He sees it as a logical extension of the effort to tax smokers. "We're going after people who have problems with addiction for a revenue stream, only caffeine would be one that is more broad-based," he said.

full source article:
Let's tax caffeine, legislator argues - Salt Lake Tribune

 

[MyB]

i heard on the news once that great britian has a tax on potatoe chips

 

[angel.white]

Tons and tons of people drown in water. It is the cause of mass destruction like tobacco has never seen, when tsunamis and typhoons take out cities. Think Katrina. We should tax water too. Someone contact the truth campaign, I don't think we can pull it off without sensationalized bigotry and propaganda.