Fast forward thirty years. Imagine that you have switched to diet pepsi to avoid the calories in those 5-6 cans of regular Pepsi. Now, following the logic (if you can call it that) of this latest Nanny State power grab, you should pay less for the diet soda, right? Isn’t the goal to charge more only for soda with that evil sugar?
Anyone who has ever bought soda knows that the price of diet soda is always the same as the price of regular soda, no matter what the price of sugar is doing. So if the price of a six pack of Pepsi goes up to ten bucks so will the price of a six pack of diet Pepsi.
These people need to get a life and leave us alone.
Nanny state ping.
I agree with what you’re saying, but keeping the conversation selfishly on me, I will restate that I defintely do not need to switch to diet soda. On of my health problems is my thyroid. Sometimes I visit my doctor and she actally tells me that I need to try to GAIN some weight. So switching to diet soda would probably be a negative for me health-wise. Personally, I can’t stand the taste of diet soda, but why should I switch to diet soda any? To lend moral support to underpriveldged fat kids everywhere, who are still going to visit McDonald’s more than they should and pay the extra 35 cents tax on thier supersized Big-Mac combo? Who knows, maybe they will substitute a large “choclaty” (TM) “shake” (includes real “dairy”) for the supersized coke. Then they won’t have to pay the tax, right? How is this MY problem?