Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care

[mcgonser]

What are you, stupid?

Explain

[Gryphon]

There are already federal excise taxes on liquor, beer, etc.

[mcgonser]

There are already federal excise taxes on liquor, beer, etc.

There already was taxes on tobacco and it did not stop them from raising them. I think we should make alcohol a luxury.

[Gryphon]

There's talk of raising the excise on liquor as well. I'd venture the health care costs associated with smoking are far higher than those associated with drinking.

[mcgonser]

Well, I would wager that alcohol causes more deaths and health care problems than Over eating. Soooooooooo!

[me]

I think this is the most retarded way of generating federal revenue....letting a bunch of pompass asses decided what is best for Americans and then taxing them for their pet projects...

where does it stop....
taxing video's?...because they encourage sitting on your butt and ususally partake in a snack that they may not need?
taxing pizza's? or maybe just a pepperoni tax?
pancakes tax?
M&M Tax?
NFL Tax?....no more couch patato's on Sunday afternoon?

maybe a calorie tax.....

Then that will lead to a Tax Credit for those who join a health spa....or maybe a cauliflower tax exempt system for eating this three times a day.....of course if you add cheese it reduces the tax rate.....

How about Obama hiring acorn to go door to door and do a refridgerator check and based upon the amount of trans fats, sugars and preservatives will determine your tax rate for that fical year...

I feel so much better...I have Hope! 

They would have to pay for a carbon tax credit for expelling more carbon dioxide into the air though.  Haven't you heard that is also contributing to global warming now? 

[Gryphon]

Well, I would wager that alcohol causes more deaths and health care problems than Over eating. Soooooooooo!

You'd be wrong.  Obesity is poised to overtake smoking as the number one preventable cause of death.

[Exterminator]

Well, I would wager that alcohol causes more deaths and health care problems than Over eating. Soooooooooo!

And you'd be dead wrong.

[Henry Hawk]

You'd be wrong.  Obesity is poised to overtake smoking as the number one preventable cause of death.

Then maybe a Microbial and Toxic agents Tax...is killing 160,000 US citizens and they are a preventable death then..

we need a sex tax....cause that is killing over 20,000 in the U.S and has millions of health realted issues.....

this whole concept is ludicrious...

[me]

Then maybe a Microbial and Toxic agents Tax...is killing 160,000 US citizens and they are a preventable death then..

we need a sex tax....cause that is killing over 20,000 in the U.S and has millions of health realted issues.....

this whole concept is ludicrious...

Please Henry don't give them any ideas......

[Henry Hawk]

heck why we are on it.............if we would outlaw Male homosexual sex and intravenous drug use...we could nearly stamp out the AIDS virus.....but THAT is not going to happen.. ..and neither should TAXING everything under the SUN to give it to the crooked bureaucrats in Washington...

[Henry Hawk]

Please Henry don't give them any ideas......

no kidding........I would get busted for tax evasion for sure!!

[mcgonser]

http://www.america.gov/st/develop-english/2008/October/20081023115119abretnuh0.9323999.html

and this is not factoring in the deaths due to dui or dwi each year.

[Exterminator]

http://www.america.gov/st/develop-english/2008/October/20081023115119abretnuh0.9323999.html

and this is not factoring in the deaths due to dui or dwi each year.

No one said alcohol isn't a major cause of preventable death but it's already heavily taxed; are you unaware of what the seal on a liquor bottle is for?  That notwithstanding, it's still not as much of a problem as the fatties according to the CDC.

[Exterminator]

no kidding........I would get busted for tax evasion for sure!!

If they tax by the inch, you shouldn't have a problem.