Tax the fat.

This is for all of you who said that taxing and banning smoking was a good thing. Even though I don't smoke cigarettes, (I think they stink) I don't believe in telling someone in a free country what they can and cannot do pertaining to their health.

We have various cities all across the fruited plane banning trans fats in restaurants. You have Boston, banning Cigar Bars within city limits. You have smoking bans on private property. Now comes an idea out of New York State from the new governor there.

How about a tax on sugared soft drinks. But not a tax on diet drinks. How insane is this? Where do we live, the old Soviet Union? Who the hell do these people think they are?

Don't think for a moment this is going to stop here. The "correct" police will be coming after your food or vise soon enough.

I predicted this long ago. I said that there would be a time soon that some government agency or branch would seriously propose a "fat tax". Well low and behold, we have the Great Empire State Governor talking about just that.

Forget the fact that there is evidence that diet drinks are probably worse on your health than sugared drinks. It is a money grab plain and simple and you know who is going to suffer the most from this tax? The lower class. Yes, you got it. The very people the Liberals say we need to help by taking money from the rich and giving it to them.

Oh don't worry, the governor also has said that even though the state need to raise the extra cash, he also is going to propose a raise in welfare assistance payments. So there you go. They will give the people who drink soft drinks the most, the ability to pay for it by giving them more money so they can tax them at the cash register.

Now what do you think will happen when people drink less and less of sugared soft drinks? Will they cut the programs that these taxes will fund? Of course not. They will expand the tax to cover Snickers and Twinkies.

Listen. The Revolutionary war was started in part because of taxes. Now we have more taxes than George Washington and the Founding Fathers could of ever dreamed of. If you think they would go to war over the small taxes they had back then, what do you think they would do today if they were all alive?

First I dare say, they would have never let these idiots get elected. If they did get elected, they would have made sure that they didn't get re-elected.

A tax is one of the most freedom restricting things a government can do to its citizens without making laws (like prohibition) against such activities.

The people of NY need to stand up and say no to this kind of tax and to any other kind of new tax. We the people are taxed enough and we don't need the government telling us what to eat, drink, smoke, think, do or be. We have the sole right to those things.

Give me a break. This is the United States of America not the Soviet Socialist States of the Western Hemisphere.

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