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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[BipolarBob]

"And maybe, quite frankly," she said, "one of the things that we ought to look at and one of the things we ought to consider is a soda tax".

Yeah, because if we are short of one thing it's taxes. Being as how the economy is doing so well and everything.

[UB355]

I say a federal tax on every bloviation from a D polititian

[Safetgiver]

Rosa, Rosa, you ignorant slut.

[Truth29]

This makes me think of some of the dialog from the move Serenity where one of the characters stated that they wanted to be spared from a government that wanted to make people better. The nanny state wiped out a planet and created lunatic monsters with their efforts to control the populace.

[riverrunner]

Better yet do away with thw hole SNAP program then the Feds would not have to worry about it.

[bill1952]

“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents.

So, the solution is to make everything more expensive by taxing us further into the swamp rather than finding ways to make the juice less expensive?

[4buttons]

I use frozen juice concentrate.

I buy it with my own money.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

How about a 99% tax on ugly?

[windcliff]

How about federal tax on Kool Aid.

[Sooth2222]

“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents.

OK, so exclude soda from purchases allowed with food stamps. And while you're at it, exclude cigarettes and Lotto tickets from purchases allowed with EBT cards.

[SMGFan]

” regular cola” .. as opposed to what? Does it matter what kind of cola? Political/legal extraneous words.

[Iron Munro]

It’s way past the time for a major, major house cleaning throughout the federal government.

[cripplecreek]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If the federal government ever taxes ugly, Ms DeLauro will be in the top tax bracket.

[Venturer]

“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents.
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When I buy juice I am buying the juice from a fruit, when I am buying soda I am buying 5 cents worth of concentrated syrup and the rest is water. That is the difference in the product. I know it, she knows it, the world knows it.

Let me make that decision and STF out of my life dipstick.

[mort56]

So let me get this straight. She’s helping the poor who can’t afford $3.49 for juice by raising the cost of the item they can afford? Truly, Liberalism is a mental disease.

[Prospero]

What we need is a tax on Ugly in New England.

Or, a tax on the Democrat Socialist Caucus in the U.S. House.

[piasa]

What we need is a tax on liberals.

[stevem]

They could solve so many problems...global warming, unemployment, high blood pressure among the citizens, two thirds of the reasons for boredom in the world, spending deficits at all levels...the list goes on...if...

They would just levy a tax to be paid by windbag politicians i.e. every word that came from a windbag politician would generate, say, a quarter.

They could hire the unemployed, hand them tape recorders, and put a team of them on every windbag politician. Revenuers could sit in offices and count the words.

Great Caesar's Ghost! There is a litany of problems we could solve.