NY needs a stupidity tax ... they could generate trillions from Manhattan alone.
WHAT A CROCK OF CRAP...PING!!
Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.
Now there's a cost-cutting measure, for sure...
Can’t this guy SEE that people do not want more taxes?
Maybe they should do the tax on the other end...like a liposuction tax.
This article is so infused with liberalese, I don’t know where to start.
I always have an unpleasant aftertaste if I try one of those.
Amazing...........and just yesterday I was asked why I never had any desire to move back to NY.
A tax on anyone with the last name of Paterson!
Especially ridiculous in light of health problems related to diet drinks.
Still waiting for a sudden outbreak of sanity...
Yes, he’d prefer everyone get diabetes from artificial sweeteners.
Yup........tax the people while they are down. Really helps the country. All they are doing is insuring their own salaries.
“Lord, please save and deliver me from the do-gooders!”
Hmm...so we hassle merchants and tax soda, but not calorie-filled coffee drinks and sugary juice. Maybe we should tax fat slobs for offending my aesthetic sensibility as I walk down te street? Better yet, how about a tax on liberal stupidity?
Funny... every fatso I see orders diet soda... like it somehow makes up for all the rest of their over eating.
Obviously it is the State budget that needs to go on a diet. No can do, so instead they tell taxpayers that they are too fat, and need to tax them for their own good.
Obviously it is the State budget that needs to go on a diet. No can do, so instead they tell taxpayers that they are too fat, and need to tax them for their own good.
My elected officials in Albany will soon be debating the appropriate taxation levels on Dr. Pepper vs. Diet Coke. It really has come to this.
If they can take a break from arguing the merits of taxation on OJ with or without pulp, I’d really like them to get their collective S@#$ together. Soon.
Just another ploy to steal a few more coins from the taxpayers. How bout letting insurance companies charge higher premiums to people that are obese—a much more fair way of dealing with the epidemic of overfed people. Insurance companies already charge higher rates for smokers. Why not obesity or homosexual behavior? Homosexuals are the #1 vector for the spread of infectious diseases as well as AIDS breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria.