Soda Tax

So now the president is thinking of taxing soda to pay for health care. I thought that limey bastard was only going to raise taxes on the rich? Someone brought that up when he raised taxes on cigarettes, and he was like, “People choose to smoke cigarettes.” And we’ll be choosing to drink soda. And choosing to drive. And choosing to eat food. And choosing to use the internet or whatever else he thinks of taxing. But no taxes on the rich!

No word on whether they’ll be taxing pop as well, but I hope they tax that a ton since people who drink it are idiots.

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  1. The whole Tea Party thing from last month was cool. I dig the historical references. But really, who drinks tea anymore? Now we can have a Coke Party and dump a bunch of cola in the lake. Then when Obama hears we’re having a Coke Party he’ll show up, with a $20 bill rolled into the shape of a little straw. Then we can mug him, take his $20, and throw HIM in the lake.

    >>>but I hope they tax that a ton since people who drink it are idiots.

    Them’s fightin’ words!

  2. TN is onto something…and not just muppets.

    How much money has it cost the government (well, taxpayers) to attempt to brainwash people that two guys wanting to get married is normal? Since government expense is the premise for most new taxes and government takeovers, gays should be licensed, regulated, taxed and audited out the butt (after all, a guy’s butt is really an exit, not an entrance).

  3. Going by his attempted logic, he ought to sponsor a bill with Sheryl Crow. Remember the whole “1 square per visit” nonsense she squeezed out last year?

    $.02 tax/square.

    I mean, lets be serious-
    You choose to wipe; It’s not as though you need to. Why, just look at the apes – you don’t see them getting all picky about what’s sticking to where, and we’re all supposed to be essentially like them, right? Using TP is unnatural, like smoking!

  4. Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser for Vice President Biden, stated today on NPR that “Big Brother is now going to tell the corporations they are serious about collecting taxes”. My jaw dropped.

    In reality, isn’t it the consumer that pays all the taxes in the long run?

  5. How bout the hippie air pollution tax? They don’t take baths and stink and the stink is a form of air pollution. It’s a win win they take baths or pay a tax and we ain’t got to smell em.

  6. Proponents of the tax cite research showing that consuming sugar-sweetened drinks can lead to obesity, diabetes and other ailments.

    Don’t even talk to me until “can lead to” becomes “absolutely causes”.

  7. A gay tax, a “straight but not narrow” idiots tax.
    A tax on those itty bitty hybrid cars.
    A tax on tofu and soy. *Only exception are those who can’t eat meat for health reasons but wish they could.*
    A tax on rap and hiphop.
    A a tax on boy bands.
    A tax on people who don’t like Disney. Or capitalism, period.
    A tax on people who call them “undocumented or migrant workers” instead of illegal aliens.
    A tax on abortion.
    A tax on people who see psychiatrists because their daddy didn’t buy them an ice cream when they were five and they won’t get over it.

  8. He should tax booze. And marijuana. LOTS of people drink and smoke weed, and they’re stupid too. Plus, it’s their choice! He should even consider a tax on prescription drugs, heroin, cocaine, crack, rock, and oxycontin. Lots of people take prescriptions. Lots of people do drugs. There’s a lot of money to be made and people are stupid. Just tax it!

  9. I’m going to start buying the stuff I need everyday and get a years supply. Then I’m going to stop buying anything and let BO and his cabal tax NOTHING. I know that my little part won’t make much difference but it will make me feel better.

  10. This dumb classless disgrace in the White House, what a moron.

    present hussein: Lets see, we’ll tax cigarettes to pay for health care… what people quit smoking? why? don’t they want to pay for illegal mexican health care?

    moron adviser: lets tax pop.

    present hussein: What they quit drinking pop? what they don’t want to pay for illegal mexican health care? Lets tax Republicans! They bare the ones with the jobs. What they keep shooting tax collectors? what they don’t want to pay for illegal mexican health care?

  11. #30 wins…at least the wouldn’t-it-be-great-if-that-really-happened award.

    I will SO point and laugh WHEN “Present Hussein” (LOL) makes even the screeching moonbats cough up their welfare checks in order to keep his monopoly socialist govt as the only ones with currency or guns. No more free Nikes and iPods from the taxpayers!

    Seriously though, who can stop the DELIBERATE destruction of this country as Liberals try to finish what they started 50 years ago? Not even legitimate voters, I fear, because ACORN will just “create” more fictitious and illegal “voters” to keep the Kenyan-in-Chief as USSA dictator for life. After all, there’s a reason those donkey a$$holes revere Castro.

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  14. – William Graham Sumner, 1883.
    “The Forgotten Man … delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school … but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide.
    Such is the Forgotten Man.
    He works, he votes, generally he prays – but his chief business in life is to pay … Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?”

    Frederic Bastiat, 1850 (Thanks to Mark Levin)
    When the law has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters.
    The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose.
    The law has been used to destroy it own objective: It had been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect.
    The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property ot others.
    It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder.
    And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.”

    We may be Forgotten, but We will Remember.

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