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Posted on 08/23/2014 12:20:38 PM PDT by bamahead
Last month, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) proposed the SWEET Act, an excise tax on sweetened beverages. The tax, which has been billed as a national soda tax, would lay a one-cent duty on every teaspoon of sugar in soft drinks and other beverages. The proposal is intended "to curb obesity, diabetes, and the resulting health care costs."
Why is this a good idea?
“When a two-liter cola is 99 cents and blueberries are over three dollars, something has gone very wrong,” DeLauro told attendees.
For the record, a pint of blueberries contains more than 40g of sugar. That’s about as much sugar as you’ll find in a pint of soda.
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But the handful of soda tax supporters may be insulated from these facts, given the echo chamber in which they reside. For example, Rep. DeLauro publicly announced her intentions to introduce the tax during a videotaped appearance at the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s insiders-only “soda summit” in June, shortly before a New York State court sounded the death knell for New York City’s reviled soda ban. (The fact one New York City health department official who spoke at the “soda summit” described the city’s appeal as “critical for future efforts by the department to take action” can only be described as good news for those who think the city’s future efforts shouldn’t include such buffoonery.)
The CSPI summit was co-sponsored by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic arm. DeLauro’s proposed tax is similar to a one-peso-per-liter tax that took effect this year in Mexico. That tax became law thanks to a $10 million donation from the same Bloomberg charity that co-sponsored the CSPI soda summit.
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Only liberal morons could think this is a good idea.
What’s next? Tax bread? Air?
It was just too easy.
Turns federal food stamp dollars into state tax receipts!
If they cared about health they’d ban using food stamps to buy sodas.
It’s a money-making liberal sham like all liberal schemes.
“When a two-liter cola is 99 cents and blueberries are over three dollars, something has gone very wrong,” DeLauro told attendees.
The founding fathers evidently forgot “no soda shall cost less than blueberries” amendment.
“What’s next? Tax bread? Air?”
What do you think their carbon tax is but a tax on our breathing.
in Massachusetts, a pack of Marlboro is 10 dollars. the people they claim to like, the inner city poor, smoke the most. now they want to punish them even more with 5 dollar sodas.
Food police.
That is fantastic.
Does she drink soda?
If not, I want a whole lot more.
If she does and this is what it did to her there won’t have to be a tax to encourage stopping, just put her picture on every can.
There’s no sugar in coke. They use HFCS.
The resemblance is uncanny!
She looks she could play bass in a 3-piece Canadian rock band. LOL
Ironically, government interference in the marketplace has contributed to this “problem” that liberals want to “fix” with more government interference. (Because free-markets, and individual choice are simply not acceptable options.)
Protectionism for the U.S. sugar industry has resulted in greater use of HFCS in the soda (pop) industry. HFCS (according to many scientists) are more likely to cause obesity, than cane or beet sugar.
So ... you’ll have one law (protectionism) driving up the cost of sugar — and another law putting an additional tax on products containing (mostly) the HFCS substitute.
Anyone care to guess what the next round of government interventions will involve?
Totally unexpected.
Warren Buffet should be happy
What a hoser.
FURDL!! Any “Republican” going along with this crap is a fat communist basturd.
Tax us to Hell so they can pay the sugar growers huge subsidies to flood our markets with cheap sugar. Then tax us to Hell again when we buy products made with that cheap sugar.
How about we just shut off all tax subsidies to sugar growers?
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