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Rep. DeLauro: Tax Every Teaspoon of Sugar
Cybercast News Service ^ | August 1, 2014 - 2:23 PM | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 08/02/2014 10:11:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced this week the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET Act), which aims to institute a tax of one cent per teaspoon—4.2 grams—of sugar, high fructose corn syrup or caloric sweetener.

The measure (HB 5279), introduced Wednesday says, “A 20-ounce bottle of soda contains about 16 teaspoons of sugars. Yet, the American Heart Association recommends that Americans consume no more than six to nine teaspoons of sugar per day.”

Even though the manufacturers of the sweet drinks are targeted to pay the tax, the text of the bill itself notes that the goal is to reduce public consumption through a price increase.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: nannystate; rosadelauro; sugartax; totalitarian
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To: martin_fierro

Hate to say this Martin, but Ron Wood is better looking.


21 posted on 08/03/2014 3:39:36 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: martin_fierro

What if ballots had pictures of the candidates on them?


22 posted on 08/03/2014 3:48:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Olog-hai

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is living proof that some kinds of ugliness are not just skin-deep.


23 posted on 08/03/2014 4:41:41 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Olog-hai

The sugar lobby will shred her


24 posted on 08/03/2014 4:42:59 AM PDT by Figment
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To: Olog-hai

Rep. DeLauro. (Rep.: abbreviation of Reptile)


25 posted on 08/03/2014 4:45:50 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Olog-hai

The Wooster Street Monster is more than happy to slap a regressive tax on the useful idiots who regularly vote for her. They know the money will just come back in the form of more entitlements.


26 posted on 08/03/2014 4:54:31 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Olog-hai

Thus adding $10.90 to a ten pound sack of sugar. Who knows what it will do to the price of beer because malt will get it, too.


27 posted on 08/03/2014 5:09:00 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Olog-hai

I was no fan of trans-fats and I’m glad to see them gone. Next on my list is HFCS...maybe should not be ingesting that crap either, so if she wants to tax it, FINE WITH ME. I’d like to see it gone one way or the other.

But leave sugar alone - as long as it’s real sugar there’s no harm in eating it.


28 posted on 08/03/2014 5:12:23 AM PDT by BobL
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To: martin_fierro

LOL - You need to add Mick Jagger to your comparison.

She does proves that looks are DEFINITELY not a consideration when it comes to Democrats selecting their Reps.


29 posted on 08/03/2014 5:13:38 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Paladin2

I find taxing sugar, salt, and other essential commodities of a persons diet or life, unconstitutional. Maybe tax the artificial sweeteners.


30 posted on 08/03/2014 5:34:58 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Olog-hai

CRIKEY! Will someone PLEASE drop a house on her already?

How is it that the left has been able to tap into an unlimited supply of the people?!?


31 posted on 08/03/2014 5:35:52 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: All

Can we tax ugly and stupid too? At first glance, I thought this was satire. I never met a dim who didn’t want another tax.


32 posted on 08/03/2014 5:37:26 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Paladin2
I think we need to tax Congressional legislation.

Better still is to tax traitorous Demonicrats for breathing. Let's hope that someday that tax is no longer used.

33 posted on 08/03/2014 5:42:56 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Olog-hai
Hey, Rosie, if it's so dangerous, shouldn't it be outlawed?

Just think of all the feral government DEA agents you could provide jobs for, and all the property you could steal under the asset forfeiture laws!

34 posted on 08/03/2014 5:43:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Secret Agent Man

You forgot farts. They want to tax them too.


35 posted on 08/03/2014 6:45:19 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Olog-hai

Does she intend to include High Fructose Corn Syrup? Inquiring minds want to know.


36 posted on 08/03/2014 6:52:45 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Olog-hai
Rep. DeLauro: Tax Every Teaspoon of Sugar

It was exactly this kind of thinking that sparked the original Tea Party in Boston Harbor. Wonder what the constituents of her own district think of this?

37 posted on 08/03/2014 7:34:22 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: BobL
.....maybe should not be ingesting that crap either, so if she wants to tax it, FINE WITH ME.

You want to increase our taxes because you're a scientific illiterate?

How conservative of you.

38 posted on 08/03/2014 10:10:15 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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39 posted on 08/03/2014 10:11:14 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mase

” You want to increase our taxes because you’re a scientific illiterate? How conservative of you.”

I want that CRAP off the market. Sugar is JUST FINE.


40 posted on 08/03/2014 10:37:00 AM PDT by BobL
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