San Francisco Considers Taxing Soft Drinks
San Francisco is now considering taxing high fructose corn syrup, in other words, soft drinks. This comes as no surprise as this is the same city that has tried to ban fireplaces, water coolers, and plastic bags in the name of stopping global warming. San Francisco has also voted to hand out ID cards to illegals as well as gender neutral ID cards, and created safe injection rooms for heroin addicts.
This latest scam is being spun as a way to, let’s all say it together, save the children. An old excuse, but a reliable one, after all, who wants to hurt the children? They have no ethics when it comes to raking in more money.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom says obesity accounts for tens of millions of dollars in city health care costs. He cites a recent San Francisco Health Department survey that found nearly a quarter of the city’s 5th, 7th and 9th graders were overweight and that high sugar drinks make up a tenth of a kid’s daily calorie count.
Let’s start off by asking a simple question, but a relevant one. How is it the government’s business how much a child weighs? The simple answer is, it is none of their damn business. If a child is overweight, the parents have the obligation here to try to help the child manage his weight. The parents carry the burden of raising the child healthy, not the government. Parents are too lazy and they welcome the government doing it for them in San Francisco evidently. Once again a Democrat is going after a big business while trying to say that they are doing it for the children.
Secondly, how does a tax on soda help a child to lose weight? Paying an extra five cents or so for a soda is going to dissuade a child from buying a soda? I don’t think so. This is just another way for politicians to get their hands on our money, because they feel they can spend it so much more wisely than we can.
And lastly, the mayor states that the overweight children cost the city tens of millions of dollars in health care costs. This is just an excuse to justify this additional tax. A tax, by the way, that would hurt the lower classes and the poor, the demographics the Democrats supposedly care about the most. But that is bullshit. It is spin to get the people to agree to the tax to save the children. If the mayor really cared about saving the city healthcare costs he would embark on a program to rid the city of ILLEGAL ALIENS, who use the emergency room as a primary care physician’s office. This is where millions of dollars are lost by the city. Providing free healthcare to illegals through the emergency room.
With everything that the city has proposed banning and taxing and regulating, illegals are still walking the streets unchecked. Hell, they can even get ID cards in San Francisco. Yet the legal residents must pay more and more to support these people who are a drain on the economy, and maybe even worse, society.
America's Watchtower 
Mpinkeyes,
What will they not tax?
This is a perfect Socialist Squirrel example!
~Teddy Bear
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Hey,
You gearing up out there for the Primary?
~Teddy Bear
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I wonder if there is any way that we can separate San Fransisco from the rest of America and just let them fester alone in as their own little socialist state? They don’t really seem to share any common values with the rest of us, and don’t seem to be all the interested in being a part of the country… So maybe we should grant them their wish… And then levy sanctions against them and embargo them like we did to Cuba. 🙂
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I wonder if there is any way that we can separate San Fransisco from the rest of America and just let them fester alone in as their own little socialist state?
Withdraw military protection for the region and let the Mexicans have it. It’s not like they want the military there anyway…
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Before we let them seperate from the rest of the country please let New Hampshire send our two representatives there, they seem to share the same values having voted with Pelosi over 95% of the time.
Teddy Bear, we are gearing up for the primary here. You wouldn’t believe how much coverage this draws on the news every night. I still am undecided, please help me decide!
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I think we could round up more than a few excessively liberal and out of touch congresspeople to ship off to SF to start a new life as a little socialist nation out there. 🙂
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Oh, and I still say “Fred” if for no other reason than his refusal to play along with the media circus and his awesome smack down of the childish global warming question in their last debate.
Romney is a close second though. As far as people who have a shot to win anyway. If I though Tancredo had a snowball’s chance in hell, I would consider him, but I don’t think he’ll make it very far.
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Interesting to see how this shaping up in the public. Seems like people aren’t agreeing with the mayor.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/18/MNEHU020U.DTL
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That sounds like a good idea to me, arclightzero.
I have to say I am leaning towards Romney right now. I also am looking at Hunter and Tancredo, but as you said they don’t stand a chance, so I may throw my hat in the Romney ring.
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