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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

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To: BobL

So giving in to the liberals’ way is the way to eliminate the alleged “crap”?

Nobody buys HFCS voluntarily, for the record; it’s an additive. If people want to vote with their feet and buy stuff that contains it, versus looking for the stuff that contains sucrose instead, then that’s the free market.


41 posted on 08/03/2014 10:46:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

We should tax liberal idiocy, instead.


42 posted on 08/03/2014 11:04:45 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai

If we taxed ugly, she could pay off the national debt.


43 posted on 08/03/2014 11:05:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BobL
But leave sugar alone - as long as it’s real sugar there’s no harm in eating it.

There is fructose in your sugar, shhhhhhhhh.

44 posted on 08/03/2014 11:07:36 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: dfwgator

Seems that the comparisons with the archetypal witch go beyond the merely facetious. Why such a preponderance of female politicians with that same lack of “healthy” physical appearance among the liberals?


45 posted on 08/03/2014 11:13:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Feminism was created so as to give unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society. - Rush Limbaugh Undeniable Truth #24


46 posted on 08/03/2014 11:16:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I figured that I wouldn’t make any friends going after HFCS...but I do what I feel is right, and I actually do believe there is a place for governments to protect us. For example, I know that Houston’s smog would rival Peking’s if the EPA hadn’t cleaned up cars.

...of course there are limits and forcing California to close shop because some 2” fish wants fresh water (and thereby forcing most of California’s fresh water to drain directly to the ocean) is INSANE. But I still believe in some regulation, because BIG BUSINESS is simply incapable of regulating itself, as PROVEN by the mortgage crisis not long ago, when they JUMPING OVER EACH OTHER to loan $500,000 to people making $50k per year and never having a prayer of paying it back.

Anyway, hopefully the market will at least put an end to HFCS, even if the government won’t.


47 posted on 08/03/2014 11:18:09 AM PDT by BobL
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I figured that I wouldn’t make any friends going after HFCS...

I'm trying to figure out why HFCS is bad, but the fructose in your real sugar is good.

Maybe you can explain?

48 posted on 08/03/2014 11:25:22 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai

If they Taxed Ugly, she would have to declare Bankruptcy.


49 posted on 08/03/2014 11:25:31 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Things can always be worse and the Democrat Party is here to prove it.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

“I’m trying to figure out why HFCS is bad, but the fructose in your real sugar is good.”

It’s the conversion of the sugar type, totally messes it up. Anyway, little old me won’t have any effect, but people are now moving away from that junk regardless.


50 posted on 08/03/2014 11:31:46 AM PDT by BobL
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It’s the conversion of the sugar type, totally messes it up.

What conversion? Where?

How does it "mess it up"?

51 posted on 08/03/2014 11:34:08 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is what happens when you vote hippies into office.


52 posted on 08/03/2014 11:41:15 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
He's afraid of sugar........but sugar is ok.

He's afraid of big government.....but big government is ok.

Behold big government conservative logic at work.

53 posted on 08/03/2014 11:50:01 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: dfwgator

This is beyond merely unattractive. This is monstrous appearance.


54 posted on 08/03/2014 12:01:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Toddsterpatriot

There isn’t generally any free fructose in sucrose (table sugar); fructose is one of the metabolic derivatives. It’s generally not good to actually consume simple sugars as food, including glucose; better to eat complex sugars and let the body break them down, because if you eat a simple sugar, the digestive juices will not let them get into the bloodstream in that form.


55 posted on 08/03/2014 12:03:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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It’s generally not good to actually consume simple sugars as food, including glucose;

Why?

better to eat complex sugars and let the body break them down,

How long does it take the body to break them down?

if you eat a simple sugar, the digestive juices will not let them get into the bloodstream in that form.

What can your stomach do to the already simplest sugars?

56 posted on 08/03/2014 12:17:57 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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Hydrochloric acid tends to dehydrate simple sugars (with the formula C6H12O6
57 posted on 08/03/2014 12:35:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Hydrochloric acid tends to dehydrate simple sugars (with the formula C6H12O6) into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), which has no real nutritional value and is a potential carcinogen. Most HFCS has a certain amount of 5-HMF in it.
58 posted on 08/03/2014 12:35:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Toddsterpatriot

tax every liberal representative 100%


59 posted on 08/03/2014 12:44:32 PM PDT by felixandbowinkle (let irritations pass and become truly happy and strong..fhu.com!)
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To: Olog-hai
How the HELL does this HIDEOUS MONSTER ever get elected?


60 posted on 08/03/2014 1:14:15 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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