[NormsRevenge]

It’s for the obese children, yaknow...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Anyone who really believes that this has anything to do with “childhood obesity” might be doing too many recreational drugs.

[highlander_UW]

If they really want to raise money how about charge politicians $5 for every lie. That would fill the coffers in no time.

[beaversmom]

The tax would be paid by companies that bottle soda and make finished beverages or syrup for fountain drinks, sponsors said.

LOL!

[Vaquero]

the land of Fruits and Nuts and Flakes never ceases to amaze.....

un-friggin-believable

[Hugin]

Because Californians don’t pay enough taxes.

[Cobra64]

Who dreams up this dopey crap?

I'd be embarassed to even mention the idea.

It'll be interesting in restaurants and diners when the waitress puts 2 cents on the coffee bill.

[Graybeard58]

The soda pop tax is already a fact in Illinois.

[Tzimisce]

Just what California needs: more taxes. :)

[LibFreeOrDie]

I’m guessing Coke and Pepsi didn’t sweeten the Dems’ campaign donations enough.

[C19fan]

Another case study of why CA is in the toilet.

1: Whole Nanny State aspect of the tax
2: The lie that it will be paid by bottlers
3: Not one cent of any revenue raised will be used to at least help get CA out of its fiscal hole but instead another used for a specific purpose whether the schools really need an obesity or not.

[oyez]

This cause ‘du jour’ is growing only too familiar. The government steps in and says we are doing this to help you, and what really happens is the they stomp on our toes and tell us that the pain beneficial..

[umgud]

Gov’ts have to add and increase consumption taxes. They’ve over-milked the income taxes.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

We should replace everyone in the capitol with meth-addicts. The behavior would be the same and they would be a lot cheaper to appease.

[cydcharisse]

Just take the damn money and get it over with.

[RSmithOpt]

What a freakin' way out cool Utopian Nanny State warm fuzzy 'We Care' tax.

CA needs a Mac Attack Tax too:

[wrench]

Candy will be next.

They will soon use the lessons learned from taxing alcohol and tobacco. Huge tax revenues, and not a dime of the taxes used to reduce the existing tax burden on citizens.

The new revenues just disappear down the government rat hole.

[Logical me]

California Communists Party (formally the Democratic Party) at it again. The manufacture will just pass the cost on to us so that is another reason why California is the garbage dump of America. And what is so irritating is the dumb RAT voters that keep these insane nitwits in power.

[Aliska]

This is ridiculous! My friends and I drank lots of soda pop, maybe 2 a day by junior high, and not one of us was fat! Some of us were too skinny! And most of us were allowed pop at home, not excessively, and were served nutritious meals, and our moms (or we) packed nutritious lunches. We ate some junk and high-calorie, high-carb food, too, some of the food from the school cafeteria. And I loved some of it!

The problem is lifestyle, not sugar in pop. We walked and got a lot of exercise. What are these obese kids doing? Out of a class of 30, there may have been one overweight kid on the average all through high school; the rest were normal or skinny. I won't deny there were some fat kids then.

It wasn't until I got to college (and less exercise) that dieting because a fad and kids started watching more what they ate. Even so, I can't recall one fat one at that university off the top of my head; maybe one roommate was slightly overweight.

The only parent I remember being seriously overweight was my mom, nor were any of my teachers overweight, maybe the jr high history teacher.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

This is what will happen when government gets control of our health care. They’ll tax everything they deem unhealthy “for the children” while progressives beg for more.