Posted on 05/06/2010 6:35:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
If Allegheny County added a tax of 1 cent per ounce on sugary soft drinks, it would cut consumption up to 8 percent. It would also produce an extra $54 million in revenue that could be plowed back into anti-obesity efforts.
That's the conclusion reached by 21 undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University, mostly seniors in the departments of Engineering and Public Policy or Social and Decision Sciences.
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This reporter is well-known as a huge screaming Lib. Nice to see that she is at least taking time-out from bashing the Catholic Church in order to do her part to help Gubbermint refill the pig trough.
Just as I thought, yankees are fat and stupid. Good thing they will respond by taxing themselves. The amount of idiocy that comprises the North East is unfathomable.
I have some family in Alabama. Your post is making me crave a Coca Cola and a Moon Pie.
/p> If she can connect Obesity and Catholicism would that be a liberal-nanny Trifecta?
I have some family in Alabama. Your post is making me crave a Coca Cola and a Moon Pie.
May I recommend a Cheerwine and BBQ Sandwich?
Our Bishop went to the PG and demanded twenty-five paragraphs to respond eo her twenty-five paragraphs of slander, which they did give to him.
The BBQ sandwiches down there are good eating! I much prefer them to Primanti Bros.
If you by soft drinks on sale, that’s more than 50% of the current retail price.
The “any excuse will do for tax hikes” by your local political class.
Notice that there aren't any business or economics majors involved to call "BS" to these findings!
Who the hell are you?
If she can connect Obesity and Catholicism would that be a liberal-nanny Trifecta?
You can laugh, but if they can get away with applying this sort of warped logic to Coke and Pepsi, it won’t be long until they are trying to apply it to Communion hosts.
The rise in obesity tracks perfectly with the rise in the artificial sweetener High Fructose Corn Syrup in our diet.
It's documented.
HFCS interferes with hormones disastrously.
Increases the action of Grelin ("Guurrr, I'm Hungry!") and decreases the effectiveness of leptin ("Ooh, I'm Full).
This money would be spent on anything but anti-obesity efforts. It's the government.
“21 undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University, mostly seniors in the departments of Engineering and Public Policy or Social and Decision Sciences.
Notice that there aren’t any business or economics majors involved to call “BS” to these findings!
1) my first reaction was “what in the hell is the Department of Engineering and Public Policy?” Designing a bridge or a circuit should have nothing to do with micro-managing people’s lives.
2) I betcha if you went through a list of students at CMU’s
School of Social and Decision Sciences, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who was not here on a Student Visa from some developing country where Nanny State-ism is the Order of the Day.
That's the conclusion reached by 21 undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University, mostly seniors in the departments of Engineering and Public Policy or Social and Decision Sciences.
Huh???...
"Social and Decision Sciences"???
What the heck kinda major is THAT????
Maybe Ravenstahl is right... time to tax the tuition of them pointy-headed students over in Oakland anat.
What they're teaching 'em over there obviously ain't worth squat anyway.
breaking news!!!:
food found to contribute to obesity...local to federal officials working to ban all food consumption....
more to follow...
This money would be spent on anything but anti-obesity efforts. It’s the government.
In Allegheny County? That money would end up getting spent on the following:
1- Public Employee Pensions
2- Public Employee Pensions
3- Public Employee Pensions
4- Walking Around Money for ACORN types on Election Day
5- Public Employee Pensions
If anything is left over, I suspect they would spend it on Public Employee Pensions.
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