There's Nothing SWEET About the National Soda Tax

Reason ^ | August 23, 2014 | Baylen Linnekin

[Graybeard58]

We have had such a tax since 2009, here in Illinois. Now they want to add a national tax.

[rey]

What’s next? Tax bread? Air?

Sort of. The Journal had a piece next week where certain groups want to tax red meat.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

OOOOOOOOOOoooooo! Nightmares!

[Morpheus2009]

I’ve got an even better idea, since schools are in the government domain anyway, push to keep Physical Education classes in session every year of school. Personally, I think it was a great way to have fun and get introduced to various sports, and keep in decent shape, as I worked out over the summer to score better on my mile run the following year.

[blueplum]

why should a person have to give up sugar and be forced to ingest artificial sweeteners?

[sr4402]

Democrats proposing taxes before an election. Real Swift!

/Naught

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Nazis are at it again. The idiots in this country just continue to let them get away with it. Freakin’ scumbag politicians TAXING US for our own good. It’s a wonder there are still any Brooklyn Bridges left out there to sell.

[TruthWillWin]

An obsevation while having a polish dog and soda while the wife shops at Costco..... < p>Have yet to see an overweight person get a diet soda from the drink dispenser. Skinny people, average weight people, slightly overweight people sometimes select diet drinks, but the real large ones never do?

[mylife]

Very true.

[mylife]

$5 dollar Orange crush?

[grania]

There's no sugar in Coke. They use HFCS.

FWIW, I think most European and Mexican sodas use sugar cane. Kosher Coke for Passover uses real sugar. It's healthier.

HFCS is ethanol for the body.

[mylife]

Jeez yer being a bit rough on ol Geddy Lee. LOL

[mylife]

Enough!! When will the people resist?

[mylife]

Yup, Mexican sodas are sugarcane based this is a good one.

The green one is outstanding.

[Sparklite]

I used to drink Dr Pepper a lot, but the doctor told me I had high blood sugar, so I stopped. Now I drink diet green tea instead of water. My blood sugar plummeted and is now normal. Plus, green tea has a lot to recommend it healthwise. Win, win.

[gitmo]

There is already a huge federal tax on sugar.

[Organic Panic]

Notice the default stance of the withered old hag too. Blueberries are $3 but soda is 99 cents. So lets make soda more expensive. If she really cared about the chidruns like a good little tyrant she would force blue berry producers to sell blueberries at a loss of $2

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ Now I drink diet green tea instead of water” <<

Suicide?

Does it have an artificial sweetener in it? Way worse than sugar!
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[editor-surveyor]

>> “why should a person have to give up sugar and be forced to ingest artificial sweeteners?” <<

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So you can die young, and facilitate UN Agenda 21.
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[BipolarBob]

Then tax us to Hell again when we buy products made with that cheap sugar.

We don't have cheap sugar. Our sugar prices are artificially high due to price fixing by government.