Nanny State PING!
Dear Washington Times, where is your copy editor? “hues quite closely” should be “hews quite closely”.
“Einstein’s definition of insanity: Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results”
The definition of insanity is repeating that idiotic cliché over and over!
Soda except real ones from Italy. Suck
Bad sugar water
The new thing which is great is kombucha
Good for you soda !
They can’t help themselves. They want control of everything we do, say or think.
Hmmm. Maybe they should try one more time?
America, under what Madison called a "benign" government influence, became a place of freedom, creativity, productivity, and plenty--enough to share with the world.
Other places, under the spell of these ideas of "socialism" and Utopia, have come and gone, or, if they exist, they are miserable places where tyrannical clowns squelch creativity among the citizens, destroy productivity, produce poverty and gloom, and look to other countries to sustain their people, while the leaders soak up all that the citizens produce.
Yet, in America, the beneficiaries of the Founders' system of free people and limited government prattle on and on about how they're going to "fight" for the little people whose votes they covet!
Enough already!
Even in brain dead Cook County the population rose up against the one cent per oz tax. I was not much of a pop drinker but immediately went into DuPage County and bought a case.
The Central Committee had to rescind it within months grumbling all the while about “the children.”
Even in brain dead Cook County the population rose up against the one cent per oz tax. I was not much of a pop drinker but immediately went into DuPage County and bought a case.
The Central Committee had to rescind it within months grumbling all the while about “the children.”
I would drink water
Rhetorical question.
I’m in favor banning sugar and sugar products like HFCS. Sugar more closely resembles a drug than a food source. Ever see a kid drink their first coke? It’s like they took a snort of Cocaine. For a long time we didn’t see the negatives in sugar consumption today it’s looking more and more like its a drug with no health benefits that does long term damage to people’s health.
There’s a book called “the Case against Sugar” where the author Gary Taubes tracks how ills like diabetes and obesity closely track the increased availability of sugar.
Seattle has a soda tax. So Seattle Costco’s are showing how much extra you pay for the soda tax. People are going to out of city Costco’s to get their soda. The city council is unhappy with Costco for undermining their tax. Boo friggin’ hoo
They’re not supposed to “work”, they’re supposed to punish behavior with an eye towards bringing in revenue, just like excise taxes on tobacco, or what not.
Why should we care about what liberal politicians do to those who voted for them in a liberal city we don’t live in nor visit.
Whether it “works” is far less important than the ethics of government as nanny state. Shaping our behavior is far outside the proper role of government. At the federal level, it’s outside the enumerated powers, which should (but doesn’t) end the discussion. Even at the state or local level though, a government that will influence our actions in a good cause will see mission creep - the growth of their areas of influence - until they are trying to control every aspect of our lives. No, thank you.
They know exactly what it does to business.
They feign ignorance and surprise that the resuts are not as predicted.
America’s “sin taxes” aren’t intended to ‘work’; they’re intended to give Leftists a case of the warm fuzzies as they persecute any behavior of which they do not approve.
And since they are going there anyway.....
There is only two ways for this kind of tax to work, you either restrict where people can buy things or you make it nation wide.
I strongly suggest that they not try these ways but hey, their funeral.
Since being diagnosed as a diabetic, I have given up ALL packaged drinks.
I drink unsweetened iced tea. PERIOD! (Also a couple cups of coffee per day)
No soda, no beer (an occasional NA beer when out), no milk, nothing.
NO DEPOSITS, NO RETURNS, a yuge bonus.
No sugar, no artificial sweeteners, no releasing of CO2 into the atmosphere, I’m helping to save the planet! /s
Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker makes it easy! I do add a splash of lime juice.