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Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 11 | Janet Adamy

Posted on 05/12/2009 2:35:48 AM PDT by PghBaldy

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To: MSF BU

How do you go about collecting that sodomy tax?


201 posted on 05/12/2009 1:43:10 PM PDT by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: MSF BU

perfect...I will use this at the next liberal party I attend, when appropriate. What fun.


202 posted on 05/12/2009 1:44:38 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Pinkbell

By your reasoning, once the government controls health care, they will have an excuse to control every detail of our lives, because it all affects our ‘health’ in a tenuous indirect way.


203 posted on 05/12/2009 2:45:51 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: DooDahhhh

You’re correct, it’s tough and collecting the sodomy tax would surely be a pain in the ass. Posting a special tax on gay bars and the sale of rainbow flags could be a beginning!


204 posted on 05/12/2009 3:04:17 PM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: Just another Joe

Can’t you just see Burgess Meredith in “Grumpy Old Men” doing a bit on this......remember the line:

“I eat bacon for breakfast, bacon for lunch, and I usually drink my dinner.”

HEY NOW, I just love youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1leLgTr9ytw

We need some grumpy old men (and women) to set them straight on this.


205 posted on 05/12/2009 3:12:31 PM PDT by DivaDelMar (CRAm member-- (Conservative Republicans Against mcCain) Think you're entitled to my vote? CRAm It!!!)
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To: MSF BU

“collecting the sodomy tax would surely be a pain in the ass”

It may be tough, but they will get it in the end.


206 posted on 05/12/2009 3:12:56 PM PDT by Gabrial (Obama Lied - The Republic Died)
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To: PghBaldy

Can the taxing of air be far off??


207 posted on 05/12/2009 3:38:07 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: PghBaldy

Good thing I drink diet coke...no sugar there! No tax for me!

Yeah, right!


208 posted on 05/12/2009 3:38:24 PM PDT by luvie (Zero is dumb as a rock (dangerously so))
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To: Glenn
I’m sick of soda drinkers turning the office into a sticky mess with their little splashes and spills. And don’t get me started on “Coke Breath”. Sometimes I go home at night smelling like a bottling plant. It’s disgusting.

Brilliant! ^5.

209 posted on 05/12/2009 3:59:33 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: PghBaldy

This whole government is drifting into nothing more than a clusterf***.

The closing scenes of Spartacus come to mind.


210 posted on 05/12/2009 4:04:20 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Spay or Neuter your liberal today!)
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To: DooDahhhh

Quit buying any sodas and I die of thirst.


211 posted on 05/12/2009 4:20:13 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: PghBaldy

A Dr. Pepper will cost as much as a doctor visit.


212 posted on 05/12/2009 4:28:29 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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213 posted on 05/12/2009 5:23:13 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Pinkbell

They figure unhealthy and/or high calorie foods/beverages add more weight which may lead to obesity and problems associated with that.

LOL!! In fact, ROTFLMAO!

What they “figure” is that they see another way to grab money via another niche tax!

Pretty soon they will be taxing you for breathing and I am not kidding.
Just think how healthy and natural the planet would be without all of these human parasites infesting it.


214 posted on 05/12/2009 6:10:02 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I bet he’s chicken to raise the tax on Chicken...


215 posted on 05/12/2009 7:05:41 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Obama's meme: Resistance is futile you will be assimilated.)
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216 posted on 05/12/2009 7:35:58 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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217 posted on 05/12/2009 7:38:11 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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218 posted on 05/12/2009 7:40:07 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I for one do not think you are kidding.


219 posted on 05/12/2009 7:41:09 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“I bet he’s chicken to increase the tax on alcohol.”


He ain’t chicken to raise taxes on ANYTHING. This is an assault of American hisotry, heritage, culture, people, ideas, and founders.

0bama will not stop until he is stopped.


220 posted on 05/12/2009 7:42:49 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
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