http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Proposed- ... -budgeting

My take? Government programs should stop spending so much on the obese.

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WTF is soda? Soda water is being taxed now? Ice cream sodas?

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

W.T.F.

A soda tax. Seriously. This is fucked.

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

This has been in the works for months now, I remember how angry I was when I first heard of it.

Still pissed? Yep.

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There has been talk of this in NY. Same argument about how the money is intended to help the obese, but in reality they're just trying to fill holes in the general budget.

I remember months ago hearing how it would affect regular and not diet sodas. Dunno if that's still the case :/

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Dairy items are not taxable.

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Wheelhouse

No wonder it failed. Thank God they aren't trying to tax pop.

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Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can.

I don't really have an issue with a soda tax. I drink soda regularly, but if it got to be a burden, I'd just find something else to drink.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

eh, we have to pay a 10 cent deposit anyways. no biggy, in my eyes.

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That's what I'm sayin, dude! I mean, as long as they don't start taxing pop, I think we'll be OK.

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mechaphil

This whole concept of picking one item and taxing (or banning) it pisses me off. Seriously, why not start a tax on donuts? Pizza? Cake? McDonald's? Where does it end? It's just another fucking money grab by political assholes who can't conceptualize actually spending in line with what you take in. And they throw it around like some jacked up moron who just won the lottery because it's not coming out of their pockets. What the fuck do they care? Oh, another cool million for some pet project (or, more likely, a payoff for some campaign contributor or fellow pork shoveling politician)? Well, just start a new tax. Like the money comes from nowhere. These people are totally out of touch with reality. I hope they all die of sonic diahrrea.

Ham

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Do you believe yet?

Tax on pop? Who would even think of something so stupid?

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just call me Brad

Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

Welcome to NYS politics, pk

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mechaphil

I'm not sure that's a good parallel. You get your deposit back, you don't get your tax back.

At least in NY they still keep that sort of fair.
In California, you pay the deposit per bottle just like everywhere else, but they pay back the redemption by weight, not by bottle.
So the state gets to skim off of that too.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Yikes...that's a terrible deal.

so its "pop" over there too? thieves stealing our regional dialect.

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I've always called it pop, as well. A bud of mine moved home from being a music/Jazz instructor in Texas 2 years ago. He was down there for a good 4 years and developed the southern drawl and everything. He kept calling pop, soda. I was sure my mind was going to explode. I just couldn't wrap my brain around it. Since then, I've learned to accept the term but will never use it as part of my vocabulary. It's pop, goddamn it! And it's still retarded to have a tax on it, whatever you want call it! lol

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

i always called it "pop" till highschool. then i started calling it soda, to be a little different. and its stuck ever since.

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