Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care

[pariann]

Heavily tax birth (not breeding). Being born poses a 100% possibility of death.  The less births...the less medical problems to be treated for any cause, the less deaths occur.

[Henry Hawk]

Heavily tax birth (not breeding). Being born poses a 100% possibility of death.  The less births...the less medical problems to be treated for any cause, the less deaths occur.

ya know pari....you are right...in about 75 years we would NOT have the problems that we have today!!...  

Pari for Prez!! 

[Exterminator]

the only thing that hits a nerve with me are ill informed people who cant admit they are wrong.

Thank you.

[mcgonser]

Thank you.

Man Ex: Are you going to let him talk to you like that?

[Gryphon]

Im sure it was crystal clear who I was talking to.

The better question...is mcgonser ready to admit the error of this statement?

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

[Exterminator]

Man Ex: Are you going to let him talk to you like that?

Act your age, not your IQ.

[mcgonser]

http://www.rachelelliott.org/Drunk_Driving_Statistics.html

Again you are not factoring or adding in the deaths and injuries caused by drunk driving. Which is caused by alcohol.

[Exterminator]

http://www.rachelelliott.org/Drunk_Driving_Statistics.html

Again you are not factoring or adding in the deaths and injuries caused by drunk driving. Which is caused by alcohol.

Based on your link, it's still way behind the fatties.

[Gryphon]

http://www.rachelelliott.org/Drunk_Driving_Statistics.html

Again you are not factoring or adding in the deaths and injuries caused by drunk driving. Which is caused by alcohol.

17,602
thats the number of people who died from drunk driving in the united states last year.

17,602 plus 85,000 (alcohol consumption deaths)= 102,602
102,602<400,000

=you're still wrong.

[Exterminator]

There you go bringing math into the conversation again!

[pariann]

There you go bringing math into the conbversation again!

The what?

[Exterminator]

The what?

The fat fingers!

[LOsborne]

This statement for one.

I have re-read the post, and others of mine, and I don't find even one emotionally laden word. If you choose to be rude in response, the fault does not lie with me (that's myself, not me). For future reference, when I post I am either teasing you, or speaking courteously. If I ever decide to be rude, you'll have no doubt as to my intention. I have made no personal attacks on you, me, unless you count that "You're no fun" post. At that point I was teasing, and I did in fact invite you along on the virtual trip. Teasing or courtesy will continue to be my mode of expression, unless you persist in personal attacks. At that point I will probably have to decide whether to simply ignore you, or too turn you into the butt of every joke I make. 

For the most part I have enjoyed our discussions. However, I cannot tolerate gratuitous ad hominem attacks made just because you can't think of any other way to rebut a point.

[LOsborne]

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

Source, please.

[LOsborne]

Compare to: "In 2000, poor diet including obesity and physical inactivity caused 400,000 U.S. deaths -- more than 16 percent of all deaths and the No. 2 killer. That compares with 435,000 for tobacco, or 18 percent, as the top underlying killer."

http://www.doctorslounge.com/primary/articles/obesity_death/

Now unless there is a  new math Im unaware of 16 percent is a heckuva lot larger than 3.7 percent.

Never mind. And thank you.