Wasn’t a tax on sugar part of what got the American revolution going?
Key-Monk6159 on
Oh look, yet another tax and the self righteous telling others what they should be doing. But of course they would never support removing sugary drinks from being included in food stamps.
Stargate525 on
For a can of soda at the prices I usually pay that’s basically a 100% tax rate on the final price.
Iuris_Aequalitatis on
>Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
C.S. Lewis
cliffotn on
Although I could not disagree with this more, small silver lining, if it helps just a few people get off that sugar water, that’s a good thing.
I was a soda fanatic many many years ago. I was in college and to save a buck, I moved to unsweet iced tea.
Wasn’t bad, wasn’t awesome. Learned a squirt of Real Lemon made it far more enjoyable. After a couple months, my pallet adjusted and just a swallow of soda tasted disgusting.
Again, I thoroughly reject the notion of a sugar Tax. Just sayin…
Silverado153 on
So how are they going to tax a soda that’s sugar free most people call it a diet soda
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Wasn’t a tax on sugar part of what got the American revolution going?
Oh look, yet another tax and the self righteous telling others what they should be doing. But of course they would never support removing sugary drinks from being included in food stamps.
For a can of soda at the prices I usually pay that’s basically a 100% tax rate on the final price.
>Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
C.S. Lewis
Although I could not disagree with this more, small silver lining, if it helps just a few people get off that sugar water, that’s a good thing.
I was a soda fanatic many many years ago. I was in college and to save a buck, I moved to unsweet iced tea.
Wasn’t bad, wasn’t awesome. Learned a squirt of Real Lemon made it far more enjoyable. After a couple months, my pallet adjusted and just a swallow of soda tasted disgusting.
Again, I thoroughly reject the notion of a sugar Tax. Just sayin…
So how are they going to tax a soda that’s sugar free most people call it a diet soda
