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originally posted by: Bluntone22
Our moral and intellectual superiors are at it again.
Seattle has imposed a tax on sugary drinks such as Gatorade and soda.
"Seattle has decided to impose a 1.75 cent per ounce tax on all sugary beverages within the city with the hopes of raising a $15 million revenue stream that it will use for programs to help people “have better access to fresh fruits and vegetables,” as Seattle station KIRO 7 explains. The price of Gatorade Frost Variety Pack at Costco, usually $15.99, with the $10.34 tax, shot up to $26.33, leaving customers with sticker-shock."
The next step must be tax people by the pound.
It's for their own good ya know.
The nanny state keeps taking over one little step at a time.
rare.us...
What I've never understood is how liberals will tax something because they want less of it, but then they don't seem to extend that logic to how high taxes can negatively affect income and business productivity (i.e., less of it).
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: seagull
My question: when a state like Washington or Cali go to being a "one-party" state, does the number of people bothering to show up to vote drastically decrease? If you're not a Dimocrat, whats the point of voting?
originally posted by: Bluntone22
Our moral and intellectual superiors are at it again.
Seattle has imposed a tax on sugary drinks such as Gatorade and soda.
"Seattle has decided to impose a 1.75 cent per ounce tax on all sugary beverages within the city with the hopes of raising a $15 million revenue stream that it will use for programs to help people “have better access to fresh fruits and vegetables,” as Seattle station KIRO 7 explains. The price of Gatorade Frost Variety Pack at Costco, usually $15.99, with the $10.34 tax, shot up to $26.33, leaving customers with sticker-shock."
The next step must be tax people by the pound.
It's for their own good ya know.
The nanny state keeps taking over one little step at a time.
rare.us...
originally posted by: TiredofControlFreaks
a reply to: Bluntone22
And when smokers asked people to stand with us and help us protect ourselves from a rapacious government, you all believed the anti-smokers when they said that the slippery slope was all a nasty lie concocted by Big Tobacco.
We are all smokers now.
originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: Bluntone22
Easily solved.
Drink water.
I stopped drinking soda.
It's killing you anyways. 39 grams of sugar per can of Coke is bad for you.