Posted on 12/15/2008 9:52:33 AM PST by presidio9
Nanny-stateism is breaking out all over.
I can’t stand it!!!
America is broken and, it seems, no one will try to fix it.
First, they came for the smokers, but I didn't say anything because I don't smoke.
Then they came for my leaded Pepsi - how dare they!!!!!
A role for sweet taste: calorie predictive relations in energy regulation by rats.
I thought sin taxes were never a good idea? That we aren’t supposed to legislate morality or some such...
LOL - but should be duly noted as the absolute friken truth of the matter.
Well, they could actually play outside and walk to their friends houses.
‘Could’ that is,if: Liberals did not keep releasing convicted sex offenders and then arranging for them to live in your neighborhood. . .
Diet sodas are about the most toxic thing we offer human beings to put in their bodies. Neurotoxic carcinogenic poisons getting quickly and efficiently into your bloodstream.
Fine governor...institute your stupid tax....I’ll do as I have always done and buy out of state. I buy motor oil (10 cent/quart lub tax), ammo, guns, fireworks, cigarettes, liquor, beer, and a whole host of other taxed items just over the border in PA and a few miles further in Ohio where the taxes are lower.
What a dunderhead. Typical democRAT.
How about a “Sight Tax” -— Tax anything that can be seen!
Wait a minute.... Governor Paterson might object to that!
He could stand being liposuctioned with a fire hose.
"Raising the price of this liquid candy will put children and teens on a path to a healthier diet," said Elie Ward of the American Academy of Pediatrics of New York State.
Meh, it's more impressive in the original German.
Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.
Yes, encourage more fraud! That's the way to save the taxpayers money!
Looks like they are just trying to go after Big Soda. How much sugar does most "juice" have in it these days?
I'm sorry, but these guys are just the liberal side of the same coin as the "bible thumpers". I want all busybodies to leave me the hell alone.
Government mandated soda pop...
Brings new hilarity to the term “Kool-Aid”.
Damn! What’s with the sandwich assaults? Won’t a good old fashioned grapefruit do anymore?
Not if people stop buying soda and/or switch to diet soda.
It's not like you NEED sodas.
But, they'll spend that $404 million like it's a for sure income and that puts the budget into a deeper hole.
So do I get a reprieve on the tax as diet soda gives me seizures?
Awww- Is cranky-pants still venting his anger over the SNL skit?
“Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.”
Brilliant. The fraud factory gets ready to crank up.
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