[via CNS News]
Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) wants to fix nasty ol’ broken capitalism with a soda tax (emphasis mine):
“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents.
“And maybe, quite frankly,” she said, “one of the things that we ought to look at and one of the things we ought to consider is a soda tax.
“Maybe we ought to look at that amongst several other areas that we are looking at in terms of nutrition,” she said.
“Look, the point is: This is a critical, critical issue,” DeLauro said. “We need to work together.”
“Yes, it’s a horrible idea, but if you oppose it, you must hate teamwork.”
Sorry, Rosalitums, doing a bad thing together with other people doesn’t make you good, it makes you an accessory.
Oh, and did you notice her psychotic swing from fretting over the plight of poor people who have to stretch their dollars to buy a 79 cent soda, to threatening them with a tax if they don’t start ponying up the $3.49 for juice?
Yup, best way to show compassion for the poor – slowly and deliberately thumping the business end of a baseball bat into your open palm while making “suggestions” about “lifestyle improvements.”
79 cents???? Where can you buy soda for 79 cents?? what is that, for a shot?
But she’s right, if they “buy” the 79 cent soda, it’ll leave more money available on their EBT card to buy important stuff like tattoos and cigarettes and beer and drugs and lottery tickets. They’re just being smart shoppers.
Why don’t they lower the taxes on the juice company so they can sell their juice for 79 cents too?
I liked the part where she still had to say “you’re gonna go for the 79 cents” her audience must have been kinda slow and didn’t know the answer.
I guess they won’t be able to afford the juice or the soda now.
If somebody wants to
build a coal-powered plantbuy soda, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” andelectricity ratessoda prices will “necessarily skyrocket”The soda is 79 cents because of subsidies to the high-fructose-corn-syrup in it. If the tax somehow comes out to exactly the subsidies to the corn growers for the HFCS, then ironically enough, this solution would be closer to free-market.
In reality, juice isn’t much better than Coke. If you drink the same amount, you’d still get pretty much the same sugar calories, same tooth decay, and it would be just as bad for you. A can of Coke now and then doesn’t hurt anyone – it’s drinking a half gallon (some might call it 2 liters) a day. If you drank that much juice every day you’d be just as fat and toothless.
How about tap water? Was always good enough for us when my parents were poor. I don’t recall it being taxed too badly either…. Though maybe that’s just the floride/government mind control chemicals talking.
Also Hugo Chavez is advocating the same thing….so really no surprise….even on the same day….like maybe they all get their talking points from the same place.
It seems like in the liberal world something must be done to stop these roving gangs of 32oz sodas that are running through the streets destroying lives.
Does anyone else think we could crush the entire Democratic field this year if the campaign slogan across the board was ‘Yes YOU Can!’ ?
Yes you can! Buy a firearm!
Yes you can! Buy a 32 oz. soda!
Yes you can! Eat food with trans-fats!
Yes you can! Drive a car that doesn’t require 48 hours to charge (and might spontaneously explode)!
My generation has lived most of our lives being told what we can’t do by Big Brother. The first party to (genuinely) run on overturning that kind of thing, as long as they didn’t want to completely gut the military or something stupid like that, I could care less about most other positions. Let me live my life as I see fit, you’ve got my vote.
Answer the door with a bat in your hand – and smile!.
Its fascinating that the answer to the problem of expensive fruit juice vs cheap soda is make the soda more expensive, not make the juice cheaper. Liberals: doing the same things over and over again expecting different results (definition of insanity).
Yeah but it’s for the children man, don’t ya wanna save the planet ‘n stuff.
Your civilization will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.
Now drink your juice.
“doing a bad thing together with other people doesn’t make you good, it makes you an accessory”
I’m quoting the hell out of this.
Kind of like how Bill Gates “bought out” Homer Simpson’s thriving business? That’s government, all right.
Maybe taxing my meth and crack will get me to choose arugula instead. Nahhh.