Lawmakers Ponder 'Soda Tax'

[edwardd6681]

thisd country sickines me

[trey4439]

there's no debate either it's freedom are anti freedom that's the difference you fucking thieving tards

[Anbrad43]

Sure the soda does help cause obesity. But obeisity is also caused because of all the other shit healthy or not that someone eats or drinks.

[Pandoraforlife]

Do it on non diet idc but i need my Diet dr pepper motherfuckers.

[jteeselink]

The entire idea of taxing soda is not necassary. It comes down to US farm policy. What is in our sodas and other junk foods.. HFCS! All you have to do is stop subsidizing the production of corn and the price of soda will increase naturaly. The only reason to grow corn is subsidies. W/o subsidies, corn production will stop until the market the price rises (due to lower supply). Just let basic free market econ take over & the price will go up on it's own. HFCS is only cheep because of subsidies!

[DevSodDribble]

Oh, and one other thing: a tax will only encourage people to keep buying generic store brands; Sam's Choice (WalMart) for example, is like, 60 cents for a 2 liter. If its already that cheap to start with, who'd notice a tax??

[DevSodDribble]

This is beyond stupid. First of all, Coca Cola, for example, has been around since about the 1880's, right?? So how did it become a contributer to health woes, in 'recent decades',?? Probably because they had 8 oz. bottles, not 3 liter bottles, plus Big Gulps, huge cups with refills at Taco Bell, etc. Its not the soda, its the AMOUNT of it. Secondly, when I was a kid, we drank soda, sure, but we went outside to play and run around, instead of having Playstation, 24 hour On Demand, etc.

[powrbook17]

They already tax cigarettes and cigarette smokers up the ass. They need to tax those dam tea drinkers, oh I forgot that didn't work when they tried that too.

[starvingspider]

@powrbook17 sounds like another revolution coming

[shymoneykid]

they shood tax smokeing to if they tax soda

[stopthechem]

dont drink them ..simple

[momattyfosho]

no people just being lazy and depending on the ezy life has made them fat get up foo your ass and walk or some thing dont tax my skinny ass i drink soda i have all most all my life i way 151 pounds and i am 5' 9'' fuck the tax it is bull shit fuck obama to self righteous ass hole yoou cant fix it all leave my drink alone

[musicluver287]

i dont believe the big picture is fighting obesity because u have ppl that comment this vid and say, oh, i have the freedom to eat watever i want, thats fine, but i think its a win win because our government gets money and some ppl restrict from buying soda

and, its so annoying how retards attack something they dont like by attacking a political party, u ppl know nothing about politics, ur just being fed propaganda and cant think for urselves

[TheRegularCannons]

why should people be restricted from drinking soda exactly? What right does any person (or group of people as in the case of government) have to tell another person what they can consume, or in this case hamper what they can consume by artificially making it more expensive?

If you want to fight obesity than please privately educate people, spread awareness, help individuals who are obese improve their health. Do not use the power of government to puish your beliefs on others

[musicluver287]

they are not being restricted from drinking soda, just paying more for it

people do know that its bad, yet they still drink it

oh boo hoo, just pay more for ur goddamn soda, if u like it so much, then im sure u can afford it

[TheRegularCannons]

Whether or not the soda is still affordable hardly justifies the tax on any grounds. Soda is a high sugar beverage that, when consumed in high quantities leads to obesity and diabetes. BUT the very idea of government being able to legislate what is healthy and what is unhealthy is ridiculous (and a tax, any size is just that) and flies in the face of any level of personal responsibility for health and treats mature adults like children for making the "wrong decisions"

[musicluver287]

humans are fallible and need to be told what to do

lol, totalitarianism rules

get over ur "idea" fuckin bitches and their "the government cant tell me wat to do"

wat you r doin benefits the society so shut it

[TheRegularCannons]

First if humans are fallible, than how can other humans tell them what to do without also being fallible? How can a ruling body of people not suffer from the same failures all people suffer from? Not to mention corruption of power, failure to obey public opinion and forcing moral opinions on others through said power

Secondly yes the government can tell me what to do BUT I don't have to listen. Plenty of what I do, as an individual, benefits "society" but coercive government surely does not

[musicluver287]

that is exactly y no government is perfect

morality is irrelevant to the tax

if u dont listen to the government, u go to jail

of course the government benefits society, without it, u would have anarchy

this is y social contracts exist

[TheRegularCannons]

I'm sorry, but I was never made to sign any social contract between myself and a government. Perhaps my forefathers did but that should have no bearing on my life. All I want is to have human interaction be voluntary, completely voluntary not forced or coerced and if I wanted to subscribe to the rulings and edicts of an organization such as the US government I would have voluntarily agreed to it.

What is wrong with Anarchy exactly? Does mankind really need to be controlled and ruled?

[musicluver287]

umm, u dont sign anything, its a philosophy, read some Locke

everything is wrong with anarchy, u have learned nothing from history

[TheRegularCannons]

Anarchy is not chaos or mob rule or violence or destruction (for the most part government IS these things already). Anarchy is fundamentally Individualism, the free market, Voluntary consent and Individual responsibility for ones actions.

[musicluver287]

ur arguing like its communism, good idea, but when mixed in with real life, disaster

[TheRegularCannons]

funny you should mention communism because the concept behind a soda tax is somewhat communist in nature in that it aims to benefit the "greater good" of national health by artificially inflating the price of soda and essentially restricting an individuals right to consume what they please.

[musicluver287]

a functioning government needs to combine different good ideas from different philosophies to make it as good as possible

[tatomuck18]

Your not restricted from drinking soda. Soda isnt getting banned. Your just gonna have to pay more for it.

[doubleslottedflaps]

none a yur goddamn business what i fukin drink !!! i will drink gallons of sugar soda a day if i choose !!! i drink diet soda ,i like the taste better but i eat donuts and a half bag of chips a hoy cookies daily! i am 60 pounds overweight !! none of your goddamn business !! you try to control what i eat and i will encite a riot and do an LA riot !!!

[jam2007]

They need to teach an healthy lifestyle instead of taxing sugary drinks is that people need to enjoy their lifes of working out their bodies and get their metabolism started again. Taxing soda during the recession is a very dumb move. A better move is running, walking and riding bicycles. It needs to be done! It's time to go outside!

[madisonelectronic]

I want the govt. to stay out of private affairs, and teach me nothing. The thing that bothers me is the mild reaction to these bullshit intrusions in our lives. The Feds have no authority in what we eat and drink.

[xiola6969]

I know exactly how to fix this money crunch all government employees making over 90k a year lose 20% of there wages, do the numbers on that I bet California is in the black again hahah you greedy fucking traitors. This is like simple math guys, if I go to store and you they keep raising prices I buy it somewhere else, if the government keeps up taxes to the point its oppressive its going to get fired by vote or bullet.

[xiola6969]

This is the problem with universal health care now they own us like sheep and tell us how to live, this is socialism and you traitors are very close to learning how America deals with tyrants and traitors there is still spirit in this nation, we elected obama, We the people demand a 20% cut in pay of employes of the goverment making 90K a year or more...

[adamspacey69]

i find that soda has a little to do with the obesity.... but not 100 percent... what millions of people who are obese mostly eat junk food like chips or fast food if they wanna tax something tax the fucking fast food place.... cause only in america do we order double cheeseburgers with large fries and a diet soda kinda fucked up dont you think

[madisonelectronic]

You are fucked up, and I will eat what I please. Keep your liberal, socialist ideas away from me, as my business is not yours'. Go think for yourself, and not what do-gooders tell you to think.

[redwingfanz10]

because we can do whatever the fuck we want. just let peoplpe eat and drink what ever the fuck we please. so were fat big deal.