If they are going to do it, at least do it right...tax carbs.
Man, these people have a one-track mind.
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There is but one successful solution to liberals...and we’re all thinking it.
Bwahahahahah!!!!!
They’ll just increase the EBT card amounts. Those food deserts can be quite expensive you know. It’s for the children...
F*CK THESE PEOPLE
SERIOUSLY
At some point, you'll be taxed prorata based upon your "burden" on public services, including, for example, air conditioning in public spaces...
Great idea!. 20M dead (starved) Kulaks can’t be wrong!
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Taxman!
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
Taxman!
We are only about one Supreme Court Justice and another democrat presidency away from this country being driven so far left it will make France look like a conservative paradise.
I propose a "Tax" Tax with penalties and interest. Every time one of these groups come up with a tax to try to force us into their little mold they are taxed fifty percent of their earnings for the rest of their lives, for penalties they are put in stocks in the public square for a week and for interest every thing they own is confiscated.
The calorie tax is going to make FAT WALLETS for some new Gvt. Bureaucrats. The left screams about the right going into their bedroom and into their V (lady part), but what the lefties are doing is far more invasive.
Why do they hate poor people of porcine proportions?
Pinnipeds need to eat too...
Calories make sooooo little difference. We have our little science experiment at home ... twins. One boy, one girl. She eats about 4500 calories a day, is 4’ 10” and 85 pounds. He eats about 1500 calories a day, is 5’ 3” and 135 pounds. No video games, no TV, and lots of activity for both. Tax calories and she could starve to death!
How ridiculous!
Suddenly it makes my garden, laying hens and beef cattle that much more valuable. Gawd thes people are idiots, but not as stupid as the people that vot for them.
Not about a better society. It is about “revenue enhancement.” People HAVE to eat and taxing calories is a sure fire revenue stream.
Wonder what they’re gonna do when we grow stuff at home, or buy a steer and have him butchered outside the normal stream of commerce? They going to require butchers to file paperwork on every bit meat they process? Going force gardeners to record their yield and who they share it with?
It is a low order of probability, but commies (”Progressives”) will never stop looking for more way to loot the general population.
They should tax cigarettes too, because that will surely make people stop smoking, lower our healthcare costs, etc....
Tax alcohol too, because that will reduce rates of alcholism, decrease DWI, lower our healthcare costs, etc....
Oh yeah, tax gasoline because it will lower pollution, force development of more effecient cars, reduce our reliance on OPEC, etc...
They should tax hotel rooms because...
They should tax telephone service because...
They should tax electricity because...
/sarcasm
Whoriskey? Is that like bourbon for prostitutes?
Because taxing foods not only allows the government to dictate behavior, it also provides a revenue stream, an enhanced ability to redistribute wealth, and even better, it punishes people they don't like - that would be us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrgxHvNNUc
Oliver - “Please sir I want some more”
This is what it is coming to.
When did calories become a vice like cigarettes or alcohol?
When the federal government says it is. Anything done to excess is a vice by definition, otherwise not; even cigarettes. Common sense.
To take food directly like this would be to subsidize production (tobacco and food staples) and then punish those who consume them (cigarettes and fast food), all in the name of health policy.
No one ever said that an overbearing government is internally consistent or rational. That is precisely why the government that governs least governs best.
At least cigarettes are not necessary to life–food is. “It’s probably not politically feasible,” concludes Abigail Okrent, an Agriculture Department researcher, according to the Post.
That is arguable. I am always reminded of context, as with everything else :
Miss [Florence] King on smoking: "It's this: I think suicide qua suicide is weak and shameful, but maybe, if I just keep smoking, I can hasten my exit from this Walpurgisnacht called America and escape the mephitic cultural collapse that Nice-Nelly conservatism is powerless to stop.
"This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way."
The fundamental underlying issue is choice --- and the personal responsibility necessary to make the concept function in s free society. Unfortunately, these were decoupled decades ago, which created a government with no limits to intrusion into personal behavior. Identical to sharia law.
Once Big Brother grabbed the "health" issue away from individuals, it could justify unlimited authority to control those individuals, albeit selectively.
"Lifestyle" choices no longer pay a price for egregious lapses in judgment. Gays and other perverts get a free ride.
Parasites living entirely on the tax paid by working Americans get a perpetual free ride.
The ordinary normal citizen does not.