So the Mayor of San Fran wants to tax sugary soda. How do we feel about that? Kinda regressive. But city kids are getting fatter every year and that will put a strain on the health system of SF and the nation. But where will this slippery slope end? Taxing everything that CAN be bad for you if taken in large quantities? And if these drinks are so bad for kids why not just outlaw them? They have already banned them from some schools; why not pass a "no soda under 17" law? At least that way parents will control what their children drink.
| Soda | California | Taxation |
It would take a hell of a tax to keep me from my Pepsi.
Hell, it's the only thing I'll actually walk to get.
-Brad
www.clashofculture.com
-I get paid by the Pepsi people.
Patrick's is the argument I've made in favor of cigarettes for years now. If cigarettes are legal for adults, adults should be allowed to smoke wherever individual entities (biz, gov, what-have-you) allow it and the gov has only a fig leaf when they all-but-ban them. If cigarettes kill, they should be banned. However, the gov seems to have started to apply the gun control paradigm to other areas, such as cigarettes and sugar^D high-fructose corn syrup.
Comment #2 :: link :: January 15, 2008 11:08 PM
