Posted on 08/18/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
I appreciate your point. I drink soda pop maybe twice a year (root beer floats at family reunions). I look at the resulting obesity and diabetes from an over-consumption of soft drinks and the attendant healthcare costs that I have to share, and it doesn’t seem fair. That’s where healthcare savings accounts (HSAs) would reward us for our better behavior. Make people pay for their stupid choices, and reward others for wise choices, and maybe some people might eventually start to make better choices (like not drinking too many sugary soft drinks).
In Philly, the soda tax has led to folks consuming more booze. WTG, progs. Great public policy there.
“Liberty until I am taxed to pay for those folk’s self inflicted health care needs. There is the quandary.”
Until they neuter all welfare and food stamp recipients I’m afraid this argument will never work on me.
When I am nauseous or have vomited, I drink ginger ale or Sprite. There are other times when a good Coca Cola is the only thing that will soothe my stomach ills. When I have a migraine, Tylenol accompanied with Coke can sometimes nip it. There is a reason pharmacists concocted soda medicines. But ignorance is bliss.
Today’s Coke is not the same as what the pharmacists used to mix up. Heh. My daddy was a pharmacist. And I grew up in Mississippi. Sixth graders always had a field trip to Vicksburg where we visited the civil war battlefield. I’m not sure if we also visited the pharmacy where the first bottled Coke was made or if I did that on a field trip with a smaller group. We were proud to say that the first bottled Coke came fromMississippi.
Coke syrup was commonly used years ago for upset stomachs——you could buy the syrup at the soda fountain.
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Maybe it will in some circles. I would applaud that decision.
Maybe it will in some circles. I would applaud that decision.
Oh how I long for the Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper and 7up of the sixties. Especially the Cola flavored Icees of the sixties, so much more tastier than the soft drink flavored slurpees we have today. So sue me. Kids these days have no idea.
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