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Originally posted by Sargon of Akkad
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
She isn't adverse to charity, you know!
I don't think she's George III, or anything. And we'll have you back on the condition you have a "tea party" over your pop culture. On the plus side, we'll have one about ours, too. And while we're at it, everyone else can do the same thing. Nobody needs to hear German happy hardcore or French rap.
I'm starting to really like the idea of chucking a wagon-load of pop 'stars' into the ocean...
Originally posted by lucentenigma
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
With this and the talking head on CNN (was watching the plane hijacking) saying that all Americans have a personal responsibility to have health insurance (and will be fined or jailed if they don't) I don't doubt that there will be rioting in the streets soon.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Something that by all means is a form of poison when you look at it. Why not pay an extra 5 cents a can if it means more revenue?
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Starred for making me choke on my iced tea. He looks like he's blowing bubbles.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
If it was a tax something that was actually good for you and that you enjoyed, ok, I would be PO'ed, But it's on SODA.
Something that really should be taken off the market since it accounts for the increase in Diabetes among children and the diet stuff with aspertame? Don't even get me started.
~Keeper
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Your arguments are educational related ones, where the burden should be placed on the corporations that sell them to put disclaimers on their products and ultimately if the products are unsafe then it's up to the government not to tax people for consuming and using them but to prohibit their sale and make them illegal.
What you fail to see is that the government just becomes a partner with the so called 'merchants of death' and profits of it as well by further punishing the very people you want to save.
The government is more than empowered and capable through the Surgeon General and the FDA to compell warnings, educational programs, restrict advertising etc, etc, if saving people is the motive.
Think about what you are advocating and then think about just where the line is ever going to be drawn.
another administration official said no proposal would be forthcoming.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
I don't really see the problem here folks.
It's SODA.
Something that by all means is a form of poison when you look at it. Why not pay an extra 5 cents a can if it means more revenue?
It's just amazing to me that you won't just compromise on the ltitle things that will hardly effect anybody.
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~Keeper
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I agree with just about everything you said. Why do people expect a politician to not act like a politician, though? I don't think many of us just LOVE politicians. Yet we are constantly dismayed by them acting like politicians...
This is how they work, yes. They float ideas.
By the way, I have always supported a consumption tax.