New York to Consider Obesity Tax
Tomorrow will be day number five without power if it doesn’t come on before then. I find myself at my Mother’s house with an opportunity to blog for the first time since losing power in the New Hampshire ice storm. It feels good to get back into it, even if it is just for a short while.
On to my first subject:
New York has a cash flow problem. New York’s governor has a unique way to raise more money for the state. All of his ideas include raising taxes, what a shock. Here are some of the taxes that he proposes to increase:
increased taxes on hospitals and insurance policies
requiring new license plates to raise cash
reviving sales tax on clothing purchases
removing the tax cap on gasoline
require Indian retailers to collect taxes on sales to non-Indians
But none of those increases is what I was referring to when I wrote that he had a unique way to raise money. What I was referring to was the following:
a so-called obesity tax on non-diet soda to raise $404 million
That’s right, Governor Paterson has identified a potential new market for taxation, those that refuse to obey politically correct dietary recommendations. He has decided that what you put into your body should be taxed because you are not following a healthy diet. He knows what is best for you and because of this he will punish you through taxes. You are weak, it’s not your fault. He is only doing it for your own good. You don’t realize it now but someday you will be thankful.
Isn’t that what these nanny state politicians always say? Anything for an excuse to raise taxes.
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OK, the fact of taxing my choice of beverage aside, it is even more ridiculus to tax non-diet soda on the flimsy excuse of health issues since a chronic use of diet soda actually makes you fatter! Who say? The American Medical Associan Journal, that’s who.
Well actually Epidemiologist Sharon Fowler, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio says so, she presented research data on soda consumption to the American Diabetes Association.
“What we saw was that the more diet sodas a person drinks, the more weight they were likely to gain,” she says.
That finding was a big surprise, but it reflected what nutritionist Melainie Rogers saw in her work with obese patients in New York.
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Yeah, just great. Now A yogurt brand has partnered with the reality show Biggest loser. It’s called pound for pound. The tag line is Lose weight, help feed the hungry! WTF? Now people are supposed to pay a tax for fattening food AND feel giulty about being free as Americans to eat what we want ? Food that we bought with money that WE EARNED while working? You cannot take food out of someones mouth if they did not earn the money to buy it. Obesity tax. pffft. I am nowhere near overweight and I am offended.
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If the politicians had the same innovation in cutting spending as in raising taxes, we wouldn’t have deficits.
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