Soda Tax!? Oh the injustice!!
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By Jeremiah Liend

So I’m watching CNN, because I like pain, and this commercial comes on. This lady is shopping and her son comes up and asks to get a book, and she says, I’m afraid not, it’s not in budget, and the child is sad, but he knows that they cannot afford this book. Then the lady looks at the camera and says that there is legislation on the floor to put taxes on juice drinks and soda, and that working class families can’t afford anymore taxes.

My response; Don’t feed your kid soda. I sent a letter to the editor of our local paper months ago suggesting that if we are going to instate taxes on smokers we should tax the hell out of soda, and for once the system appears to be listening to me. Real juice will not be taxed, just the ones that have 1% fruit juice with the rest being high fructose corn syrup. Delicious corn syrup. Years from now my tax dollars are going to be paying for your kids diabetes because you are apparently unaware that Coke is not good for you.

Where is this coming from? Republicans? Soda advocates? Do the Pepsi people have lobbyists? Soda is a multi-million dollar industry, and if we can pay for children with spina bifida to get surgery because your son or daughter just HAS to get some Mountain Dew, then good. Great. The system works.
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wabbitoid · 804 weeks ago

I think we should support this Depression by selling naming rights. The last one was the Great Depression, which while a fantastic handle isn't something that raises the dough. This one should be the Pepsi Depression, at least as long as Pepsi has the money and the lobbyists to make it happen. Later, we can always sell it out to Tie Guan Yin, or "Iron Goddess of Mercy" tea.
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jean · 803 weeks ago

funny you should mention this....there was an article today on NPR's site about diet soda and your kidneys....according to a study of nurses, it turns out your kidneys don't function very well (you know, filter your blood) if you drink a couple of diet sodas a day....another thing??? terrible things are being done to the water tables in other countries (read poor countries) in the name of soda (see nat'l geographic and search for giant soda company that is not pepsi)....i'm just sayin'.....and i can't even talk about HFCS.....we buy sparkling fruit essence water in a can....or expensive juice pop...as a TREAT! water is fine for every day and that's the way it should be...
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