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https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/10/fizzled-0
The carbon tax is used as an excuse by California and other misguided governments to make people use less natural gas and gasoline when they know they will not.
The soda tax is very similar. They make the excuse that the overall good of the tax to 'prevent obese kids from getting diabetes'.
Some kids are obese and are just born that way and you can't make them run a marathon every day to burn up enough calories because they look like John Candy at age 10.
Social justice warrior city council members, who most likely are obese themselves, are now forcing down our throats a $0.01 an ounce sugar tax on soft drinks that are supposedly only going to affect the kids. That is a folly! The jurisdiction is just finding ways to tax and spend their constituents.
I drink up to 1 liter or 32 oz of a day of Dr Pepper. I am 55 years old and I weigh a hundred eighty pounds. I am not overweight and I walk about 25,000 steps a day for my courier company. I do my exercise moving and lifting and delivering many boxes to up to 130 locations every day.
It is not fair for people like us to have to pay for the stupid tax which is probably being invoked by fat and overweight, drinking and smoking politicians who don't practice what they preach. I'm glad that this failed in Chicago, a city known for its corruption over the century. This will probably come true in other cities and jurisdictions that have been stupid enough to invoke this tax claiming it's to help Johnny and Jane get off their PlayStation and Xbox and exercise. They will continue to play video games and we shouldn't have to pay for it.
Another tax and spend fraud scheme just like the carbon taxes are in California Canada and other places throughout the world trying to make an extra Buck off taxpayers and constituents.
The carbon tax is used as an excuse by California and other misguided governments to make people use less natural gas and gasoline when they know they will not.
The soda tax is very similar. They make the excuse that the overall good of the tax to 'prevent obese kids from getting diabetes'.
Some kids are obese and are just born that way and you can't make them run a marathon every day to burn up enough calories because they look like John Candy at age 10.
Social justice warrior city council members, who most likely are obese themselves, are now forcing down our throats a $0.01 an ounce sugar tax on soft drinks that are supposedly only going to affect the kids. That is a folly! The jurisdiction is just finding ways to tax and spend their constituents.
I drink up to 1 liter or 32 oz of a day of Dr Pepper. I am 55 years old and I weigh a hundred eighty pounds. I am not overweight and I walk about 25,000 steps a day for my courier company. I do my exercise moving and lifting and delivering many boxes to up to 130 locations every day.
It is not fair for people like us to have to pay for the stupid tax which is probably being invoked by fat and overweight, drinking and smoking politicians who don't practice what they preach. I'm glad that this failed in Chicago, a city known for its corruption over the century. This will probably come true in other cities and jurisdictions that have been stupid enough to invoke this tax claiming it's to help Johnny and Jane get off their PlayStation and Xbox and exercise. They will continue to play video games and we shouldn't have to pay for it.
Another tax and spend fraud scheme just like the carbon taxes are in California Canada and other places throughout the world trying to make an extra Buck off taxpayers and constituents.
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Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber Barron's than under omnipotent moral busybodies -c.s Lewis
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Sounds like somebody is a Heinlein fan:
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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Well, honestly, all I can say is that the citizens honestly need to stage a protesting revolt against this.
They also need to see if they can get local businesses to buy in on this, as well. I just read the other day in another RP posting about COSTCO in Seattle deliberately sending customers out of the local tax jurisdiction when buying such drinks.
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/01/15/seattle-costco-tells-gatorade-drinkers-how-to-avoid-citys-soda-tax.html
Personally, I believe the major drink companies ought to get in on this, too, and it would do well for drinking customers to encourage this. When Major companies like Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc start saying "we're not going to be selling our product in your area because of this tax", things will start happening.
But it's going to take a lot of citizen working together for this
They also need to see if they can get local businesses to buy in on this, as well. I just read the other day in another RP posting about COSTCO in Seattle deliberately sending customers out of the local tax jurisdiction when buying such drinks.
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/01/15/seattle-costco-tells-gatorade-drinkers-how-to-avoid-citys-soda-tax.html
Personally, I believe the major drink companies ought to get in on this, too, and it would do well for drinking customers to encourage this. When Major companies like Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc start saying "we're not going to be selling our product in your area because of this tax", things will start happening.
But it's going to take a lot of citizen working together for this
Seattle Costco tells Gatorade drinkers how to avoid city's soda tax
That new soda tax in Seattle is working out about as well as Chicago's, proclaims a headline at Hot Air.
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