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NY Governor Paterson Proposes Soft Drink ‘Obesity Tax’
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ROB HOELL REPORTING
WPIX
December 15, 2008
Editor’s note: In other words, Paterson wants people to drink more aspartame.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
As if there aren’t enough taxes, you could soon be paying more for soda.
In an effort to close the $15 billion state budget gap, New York Governor David Paterson is calling for a 15 percent tax on soft drinks.
If you drink diet, you’re okay. The tax would only be imposed on regular, non-diet soft drinks.
The logic: it could generate more than $400 million while helping to curve obesity.
For that reason some public health advocates support the soda tax, hoping it will lead to healthier choices.
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December 15th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Diet drinks contain toxic chemicals-worse than regular. STAY AWAY FROM BOTH, DRINK ONLY ORGANIC AND PURE WATER!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
#1 is right, I can’t believe this s---…
December 15th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Good for them! Soda is bad for you and should be taxed extra along with other bad foods like donuts.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
who gives a s---. let people drink what they want. it is your body and it is yours to toxify. if you want to drink soda and be fat and obese then go right ahead. why should that be an issue for anyone else? the last thing we need is more taxes and it doesn’t matter what the tax is on.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Diet drinks are poison… dam, they are really trying to give ppl cancer and put holes in their brains drinking aspartame!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Damn it now I have to pay a little more to enjoy my soda… are they wackos? Now they turning to us fat people to save the economy. I hate skinny people and we are on top of the food chain so take your healthy organic s--- and shove it up your anus. Out of my way or I will eat your kids for lunch!!! RAWRRRRRRR!!!
December 15th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Yes, #3, soda is bad for you. So is being sprayed with chemicals by the government. Thank heavens I’m not helping foot the bill for that program, too !!!
December 16th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Mr. Patterson obviously must of received some nice campaign contributions from the fine folks at Sweet n Low & Equal. The bottom line is that “diet” drinks actually contain ingredients that make you obese.
I’d love the Governor to swing down to his local convenience store and check out the people drinking diet soda. He might just figure out that just because it says diet on the label, it doesn’t mean that you suddenly become skinny. He might also want to consider if he gets everyone drinking diet drinks he won’t have anyone left to vote for him nor pay taxes….They’d all be too sick to work and make money….Aspartame kills.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Bothered by the flickering ad in the middle of print. Not a helpful idea. It has a counterproductive
effect.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:01 am
This is just what we need. The next thing we need implemented is a farting tax on pinto beans and Mexican food. And I suggest to the U.S. government in the very near future to propose a urinary tax on beer and water. Man it feels good to know you live in a free country.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Tar and feather the bastard and ride him out of town on a spiked rail. And, he can take his damned aspartame-laced Mickey Finns and stick them up his ass as far as they’ll go! They tried this same s^&t in CT not too long ago. They know FULL WELL what they’re doing. They want to poison us; they want us DEAD. Death to the globalists.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:16 am
The first three letters of “diet” say it all. These parasites are so desperate for money, they are like heroin addicts looking for a fix. “…The poison of asps are under their lips…” (Romans, Chapter 3).
December 16th, 2008 at 1:27 am
oh s--- my whole screan went red WTF….
December 16th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Drink Your Aspartame Or Be Taxed
http://darthchaosofrspw.wordpr.....-be-taxed/
December 16th, 2008 at 1:48 am
#3, you’re either an Obamabot, COINTELPRO, or just plain stupid. Can’t you f---ing see that it’s NOT JUST SUGAR causing obesity?! You better get educated on how aspartame and MSG cause obesity.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:17 am
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December 16th, 2008 at 2:44 am
it’s beginning to become surreal….
when will the government leave us alone?
December 16th, 2008 at 2:46 am
# 11
tru dat
it’s only a matter of time….
just think…the American Revolutionaries fought over a stamp act tax…we roll over and take in the A$$ like good lil sheeple.
let us eat cake.I keep looking for a three foot hat on obama.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:19 am
All junk food should be taxed with the money going into healthcare, not just the governments hands for them to do what they please with it. This includes diet soda.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:48 am
4 out of 5 dastards recommend Aspartame! Like Alex would say “Your government loves you”
Drink the aspartame, drink the aspartame MMMWWWWAAAAAAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(sinister laugh) and the fluoride too!
December 16th, 2008 at 5:49 am
OH OKAY YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA FOR ASPARTAME only pay more for less invasive sugar. Both destroy brain cells, but one is more agresive than the other.
Guess which is wich?
December 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I think there should be a STUPIDITY tax…
They could collect enough just from the president and his cabinet to cover the national debt
December 16th, 2008 at 8:52 am
For 30 plus years I have always saw New York as the most wickest state in our nation!! With California being 2nd!! For the nation is ruled by the bankers in New York!! Who runs the President and bribes our Congress and politicians in Washington D.C!! But now this!! New York is said by Nostradamus and other prophets to be hit with nuclear holocaust which will probably happen in the next 5 years or less!! I HOPE YOU KNOW JESUS BECAUSE IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE YOU WILL BE CHANGED FROM A PHYSICAL BODY TO A SPIRITUAL ONE!! But it all depends where you go from there!! Will you shooot straight up to heaven when this happens to cities throughout America!!?? Or will you be sucked straight down into hell where you will be moaning and groaning and agonizing in the greatest tormentings imaginable!!??
December 16th, 2008 at 9:05 am
To all you idiots, I mean to all you stupid idiots who say that soda makes you fat, I have been drinking soda everyday all my life and I weigh 142Lbs @ 6′2″, so I prove you are an idiot who should just shut your stupid mouth and eat some more vaccines.
The best way for you idiots to test your drill bits sharpness is to ask your enemy to drill a hole starting at the top of your skull straight down, you should drill at least 8 holes and time them to get the average, if it hurts, continue drilling so as not to mess up the average, but then file a little more on the tip and try again, do this until you see clearly, or you pass out, don’t call 911, or try to stop the bleeding, you do not need that blood, it was shipped extra from the factory and actually impedes critical thinking.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:11 am
#8 those lines in the skie that are over 1000 miles long are not chemicals stupid, please go to nasa’s website and re-educate your self sir.
Hey like I told a dumb ass relative of mine one time. Maybe one day you will get lucky and you too can take a 1200 mile trip of loop-de-loops, criss crossing x’s and o’s straight up and straight down to go 120 miles to the next city! as he says they are all commercial planes, you should see the things they do in our sky, I point it out and he just says that some helicopter mechanic told him that the lines are due to friction, he says that the mechainc told him the leading edge of the wing gets so hot that it makes contrails!LOL When I told him my pilot friend told me to ask him why they put heaters in the tanks, he just said that I don’t know nothing and he changed his signature to ” Because *&*&*& says so” the *&*&*& being his first name, what a dumbass.
I get so tired of people talking about everything except the fact that they are poisoning us with those damn lines in the sky, to me it’s the most important thing facing us, as the weather now scares the crap out of alot of people these days no?
December 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Yeah # 20 and you should have your body used in place of a rats to find out the cause of stupidity, and I don’t mean when you’re dead either, I mean right now, someone go and grab that idiot and STUDY him immediately.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am
are drinks included in rex 84/fema camp? Just wondering. We are so maaaaad pals.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am
If it where to happen in Virginia, than I would stop buying the stuff all together!
December 16th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Russia’s labor camps had vodka available (if by no other means than having it shipped in from someone outside), will FEMA’s camps have whiskey available? If so, it might appeal to more people. Just a thought.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I drink filtered, non-flouridated water or coffee. Sweetened sodas either have aspartame or high fructose corn syrup – pick your poison. Better yet: Don’t drink ‘em at all!
December 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
#11 Brian. I agree with you 100%. Very well stated!
December 16th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I must say I’m all for a tax on sodas a junk food. But 15% is way lower than the tax I would set were I king. In my kingdom all sodas die-t or not would taxed 9000%. The money would be used to subsidize healthy food like grains, veggies and fruits. As it is now we are taxed in order to subsidize junk food.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
#31 is correct.
I only drink beer.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:56 am
They want your soul, google it. Its about control folks. You need to get ready today, buy food guns and ammo. Dont let your families get caught in the cold on this.
http://www.TacticalWarfighterGear.com
December 16th, 2008 at 11:58 am
i emplore any one that knows the truth to go to originial story and tell the poeple the truth about aspertame i was the only comment out of 30 or so that even mentioned the idea behind the tax, ther think its a fat tax
December 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
It doesn’t take much to get you folks all wadded up, does it? I didn’t read all of the insightful comments, but of the ones I did read, no one noticed that they want to “curve” obesity, as if it wasn’t “curved” enough, for them. The sad thing is that the Gov is probably the one who actually used that word – IT’S “CURB”, DUMBASS. Secondly, sin taxes are the most telling of all – your government thinks so little of you, that they will spend money to create and administer a tax on something unhealthy or dangerous, say that it will “curve” your errant tendencies, but count on you continuing to do whatever it is they think you should “curve”, because they know you are weak. I figured it out a long time ago, when I swore that if cigarettes got to $1.00 a pack, I would quit – I pay almost $5.00 a pack for them, now… I guess you could say, I remain “un-curved”. In the end, it is like I’ve always said – boycott is the only tool at our disposal. Let your dollars do your talking. Queer their plans – quit buying as much of the excise taxed goods, and they will wish they’d stayed home with their dictionaries.
“Anytas and Melitus (NWO) may kill me indeed; but hurt me they cannot.”
December 16th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
This tax is sooo incredibly stupid. How long do you think it will be before phenylketonics sue the state for discrimintation? He must be consulting a magic 8 ball to see the future on this one!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
When did these people collectively decide for me that it’s the years in the life that matter and not the life in the years? And, of course, the poisonous choice to die quicker is exempt. Good old cyclamates, anyone? Do these people not realize that synthesized technologies born in a lab, tested in a rat and sent home for a price will never replace natural foods with thousands of years of testing and adaptation? Oh, wait, they KNOW aspartame will kill us and DON’T care!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
the most ridiculos part is non of them have sugar in them at all! the only way you can get a coke with sugar is to import from mexico, you know whats even more ridiculous is people werent fat in the 40s 50s and 60s when coke had sugar in it!
whats next? end school shootings by shooting all the kids on the bus before they get there?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I’ve tried telling people that aspartame is worse than sugar, and they accused me of being a shill for the sugar industry, even when I told those idiots the best thing to do is avoid soda and diet soda altogether.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
This is another example of government creating legislation to “protect” us from ourselves, while they profit. It’s unfortunate that people believe that that is the role of government, to intervene in our lives to protect us from our own poor judgement, lack of self- discipline or ignorance.
To those in favor of the tax I say, the more taxes the govt. creates, the more they expand their power over their constituents. If you want less govt. and more freedom, you must “starve the beast” by not feeding it more money.
To Gov. Paterson I say, are three any public schools in NYS that have endorsement contracts with soft drink companies to promote their products? Do these companies have vending machines in our schools?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
#20. I don’t want any more taxes. How about We The People actually doing some revolutionary and boycott all the junk food and soda companies and put them out of business?! I mean GROW SOME f---ING BALLS, AMERICANS!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
This is fluff…
Where’s the beef on “The Shoe Heard aroound the world”or “sock and awe”…?????
???
December 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
work right across the street from the man. send him letters and let him know what a foolish move he would be making.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
http://darthchaosofrspw.wordpr.....now-about/
How “Juiceman” Jay Kordich beat cancer: The “I beat cancer” story the medical establishment doesn’t want you to know about
December 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I never understood how calories from some sugar were really that big a deal. Sugar may not have nutrition, but at least it won’t destroy your brain cells like the artificial stuff.
It’s the way you eat and all the junk food and processed food that causes weight gain, along with your lifestyle.
These overweight people somehow believe that having a “diet” soda is really going to make them thin??? There is NO logic to this whatsoever! And they just keep consuming all that aspartame and sucralose “splenda” thinking they are helping themselves.
I am amazed at just how stupid people really are.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
ya, they’re really speeding up their operations, but I too am skinny, always have been, can eat drink anything never weighed more than 145lbs, since Highschool, I WILL be EXEMPT From this and all the rest of the Bulls--- NAZI laws they’re trying to enact! There’s no way I will drink DIET, hate it tastes like s---, & has ASPERTAME! Geez, theyr’e really trying to get people to drink this s--- with a law?! haha what morons!
December 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Oh yeah, I’ll order a diet coke while I am eating my Supersize BigMac Combo meal. That diet soda will sure help me lose weight!!! Dumb Asses!!!!!
December 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
……Thats right force that aspartame carcinogen down everyones throats. Oh …it’s so F*%!ing healthy!!! Thats why everyone I know that drinks diet soda on a daily basis either has cancer or is over-weight. ……Welcome to the global Auschwitz.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
In that case, can we also hit up G.D. Searle and Rumsfeld’s income from the Pentagon for an “aspartame poison” tax?
December 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I wish one of these supposed “public health advocates” could specify a real “healthier choice” of poison to choose from. Surely they’re not suggesting we drink their fluoridated drinking water! I’d just as soon swig my own piss from a rusty cup! Will we ever get up the courage to put an end to this s---? What the f_uck are we waiting for? It’s way past time we give them a taste of their own poison!
December 16th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Here is a little-known fact about New York’s accidental governor, David A. Paterson: He is the first Freemason to hold that office in more than 60 years
Makes you think doesnt it? Why do the free masons want everyone to start dringing diet soda?
December 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Soon the rest of America will be feeling the pain inflicted by the non-elected NY governor. The people voted in the Obama regime and now the people will suffer.
Paterson called for 88 new fees and a host of other taxes, including an iPod tax that taxes the sale of downloaded music and other digitally delivered entertainment services. Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages would be taxed. It also extends sales taxes to cable and satellite TV services and removes the tax exemption for clothes costing less than $110. A 3.3%, or $698 million, reduction in school aid. $3.5 billion in health care savings, including reductions in payments to hospitals and nursing homes. Video slot machines at Belmont Park, more multistate lottery games and expanded hours for the state’s Quick Draw lottery game. Layoffs for 521 state workers and the elimination of seven state agencies. Automobile insurance and registration taxes will be increased……
If it moves it will be taxed.
Of course some of us have been expecting it all along.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I drink energy drinks. Rip It is my favorite brand. Does anyone else here like Rip It?
December 16th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
It all boils down to control and I am getting pretty sick of it. I would think the soda manufacturers would be up in arms about this. It starts with the soda but will go on to something else.
Where I come from, there is talk about taxing the office call for the doctor. We have insurance but I think, if that happens, I won’t go to the doctor again. Would have to be on my death bed. This is where it will start but won’t end there.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
#56, never heard of Rip It, but if it is an energy drink, sounds like it is just full of sugar, which is no better for a person. I drink coffee in the morning and bottled water in the afternoon. The Crystal Geyser water; says it comes from a natural spring; I really wonder if it does???
December 17th, 2008 at 7:27 am
They gotta find a way to make you eat that Aspartame. I’m laughing my head off because, unless the judges are corrupt, such laws would never pass.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Boy our country has gone nuts!! are they desperate! keep on taxing greedy bunch!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am
howabout an aspartame stupidity tax to fund brain cancer treatments for diet soda drinkers?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I do not agree with “selective taxation” or taxation at all for that matter.. But looking around the US is a nation of fat… (obese is too kind) nation of people who justify their condition more than try to correct it with a little excersize.
The worst thing is from my observance is in the store the fattest people seem to focus on the junk food sections the most.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I would just give up soft drinks altogether and take the money I may have spent to purchase another reverse osmosis water filter, but for the whole house; I’m just about there anyway. I think what’s stupid is that aspertame actually make people GAIN weight, not lose it. So, shouldn’t the tax be on foods and beverages that contain aspertame? Just a thought.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I am not a health food nut… but so many people are “raised” drinking soft drinks/soda/soda water/ Coca Cola/”pop’… pick a name and they have had it all their life. If they quit drinking the stufff for a couple of weeks and then tasted a soft drink they may see what the stuff is really about. I rarely drink a soda..and when I do I nearly go into shock from the amount of sugar in the damn things….
There is the equivalent of roughly 13 teaspons of suger in each serving of most spft drinks.
Plus all the other crap that is pre made.. not to mention salt(sodium) in most prepared foods…
I know you can’t avoid it all… but you can control some of it.
I really love it when some 4 ax handle wide ass rides around a store on the motorized carts and then gets up and walks to tehir car when done shopping. They are their own problem.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
common sense cannot be legislated.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I agree with this tax. I am tired of paying increased health insurance premiums because fat people can’t control themselves. They have not BANNED soft drinks, they are just saying pay a little more to be fat , if that’s what you want to do. I think there should be a tax on any products with refined sugar, candy, cookies, etc. I am tired of working in a company where you are expected to eat sweets when they are brought in or you are regarded as a weirdo.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Why do we continue to ignore the other offenders, such as McDonalds, Burger King, Tim Hortons, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, Taco Bell, etc, etc, etc? This makes no sense! It’s as if they’re trying to get people to drink more diet pop….ASPARTAME!!! It’s HORRIBLE for you. Why would they make this kind of move when they know that the ingredients in diet pops are even worse for you? Oh, I know…because most people don’t know about aspartame. Great….NYS’s IQ is going to drop another 15 or 20 points. I have also heard that they want to put a tax on cows- $175 per head per year. That’s going to run some of these dairy farms out of business. We’re not the ones who got our country into this mess, why do we have to suffer for it (all of those who went into bankruptcy because they bought more than they could afford and anyone who defaulted on loans are exempt from that statement)? All of these politicians with their fat paychecks certainly aren’t feeling the pinch. I’ve also heard that they’re going to try to make it easier for people to get medicaid (medicaide?) and welfare. I say raise the standards, stop letting people be so damn lazy!!
December 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Diet is just as poisonous as regular so what is he trying to prove.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
How about the pull your head out of your ass tax
December 18th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Steph (#68),
Your argument for a “sugar tax” is lame (and you are a weirdo)! Maybe they should impose an “ignorance tax” on people who continue to consume poisonous, aspartame-laden products when they should know better! Get real! You should know they’re not wanting to add a “sin tax” to sugared soft drinks because they’re concerned about our health. If they were truly concerned about our health they would outlaw the use of aspartame (and a million other deadly substances they are deliberately poisoning and murdering us with). The real “sin” is that we continue to allow these eugenicist bastards to get away with such things. You sound like someone who may have drank too much fluoridated water! Have you ever taken an IQ test? Is your IQ a triple digit number? A double digit? Oh my god (you poor thing)!
December 18th, 2008 at 4:15 am
This whole concept of making people ‘pay’ for ’sin’ should be illegal. Where you’ve got a ’sin’ you’ve got a state sponsored religion, even if it is the religion of humans must live forever. Man, what a false religion. We’re all gonna die. Being fat might mean dying at 55 before you make it to the nursing home where someone has to wipe your butt for the next 10 years because your heart is so great from all that exercise and taking all that levitor, but boom, now you got dementia.
And oh, they are so, so playing to the OH someone is taking my money! It’s the fat person! Its the smoker! Ain’t neither dude, it is the government and your money is mainly going to buy ‘defence’ cause the govt is just as delusional as the people she’s made of thinking if she only does this…she will be invulnerable…immortal. ha!
December 18th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Only vampires are immortal last I heard.
Govt taxation = vampirization. Which mortals shall we feed on?
December 18th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Casual Observer (62): I agree with you partially. Your wording against taxation is not suficiently strong. Do you and others realize that consumption tax should not exist? Tax only makes sense within the context of income; tax on your paycheck (from work). Consumption tax, as they call it, has no place anywhere, it is illegal in the sense that it has no validity to exist, it’s just a way for the governing powers to forcefully take our money away.
What I don’t agree with you is the somewhat derrogatory attitude toward people that are fat. I’m not fat at all, actually quite lean, but I have respect for everyone equally. You cannot blame them for the way they are in a country where people are used as guinnea pigs for the chemical/pharmaceutical cartel who poison and drug us and make the food we eat derregulate our bodies, destroy/modify our genes, attack our brains to make us dumb (which we are), incapable of critical thinking. In addition to this you have the nuking of food, land and air. You see? The people are not to be blamed in this situation, we are being poisoned, drugged and irradiated.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:20 am
nobody even acknowledged #45
you people just bitching about pull your head out of your ass taxes, and im not fat i drink soda bulls---. he offered some sort of solution. write the freemason scum and tell him off. its better than bitching about nothing. PICK UP A f---ING PEN!!
David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
December 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I support this proposed tax because the ingredients are so harmful the public will actually benefit from the reduced consumption—only the soft drink co.s will have to suffer for their sins of public poisining(GMO Corn Syrup, Sodium Benzoate(benzene), Aspartame and City Water. However they should add taxes to the diet lines as well because their selling point is a complete farse!!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
As you can see from the last post, this is not only thing this guy is planning on taxing- read it for yourselves. I am for one pissed off. It’s like he/they are trying to suffocate us.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
They should tax ALL soft drinks. I’m not positive, but I would assume that many obese people drink diet sodas, and its not fair for me to pay for any of this anyway.
Why not tax ALL food?
December 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Ha diet or regular…
Just like our political system…
December 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
#78, tax ALL food?! Our economy is down the s---ter, and you’re calling for everybody to be forced to pay more for a basic necessity?! Do you realize what that would result in?! It would result in mass starvation just like in most of Africa.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
#58, there was a report that Red Bull energy drinks contain a chemical which can cause the blood to become sticky and lead to blood clots. A blood clot in or around the heart can lead to a heart attack. Every energy drink maker and junk food maker and soft drink maker should be arrested for murder, attempted murder, and genocide.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Pack a gun and pay no taxes.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
i ve got a better idea how about a tax on blind goofy looking jackass
knownothings
December 19th, 2008 at 2:15 am
WAKE UP!!!! Stop buying everything that you don’t have to have to survive. Bring the boys
to their knees. We have been conditioned to buy…STOP
It is how the country got to where it is. All we do is consume…
No ipods, soda, cars, clothes, tv’s…NOTHING but food, books and medication.
This is how we beat them to the punch…Otherwise they will continue to steal us blind and
when they have everything is when the curtain falls. You don’t need guns to fight this.
STOP BUYING, if you don’t, you deserve what’s in your future.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:25 am
To post # 74 Mark -
Thank you for the response. First of all what is “income”> If I work for someone I exchange a directly proprtional amount of my life and labor for a propertional amount of money in return. That is an equal trade.. NOT INCOME…. If my employer decided to pay me more than I was worth…say I figure I was worth $10 an hour and my employer said..I agree… but I am going to pay you more becaue I think you are worth $14…. The diffference of $4 would be INCOME..
As far as judging people on their size.. I don’t.. I OBSERVE…. It is up to them to judge themselves. They have no bearing on my life at all… UNTIL I am taxed because I occasionally want to drink a soft drink while they EXIST on them and are FAT… In fact THEY have affected me more than I affected them.. they CAUSE ME to have to pay more…. and I do NOT like someone else’s lack of responsability to affect m,e any more than they would like me to affect them ..
It is not a matter of “feeling”… It is wrong fro my actions to cause and impose punishment on others.. and GVT takes adavantage of stupidity…
As far as those posting that “the companies made people consume this and that and piison..” … Nobody has made anyone do ANYTHING…. These people made CHOICES..and now suffer at the hands of their GVT….
Perhaps if the were involved with GVT to the degree they are involved with JUNK FOODs maybe things would change… But it won’t…
People always take the path of least resistance for themselves… LIve with the damn results and shut the hell up until you are ready to take responsibility for yourselves….
December 19th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Taxes are intrusive. Intrusion is a crime. Taxes are crime.
Pack a gun and pay no taxes.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
More and more people will be tempted to buy diet to save money, but the diet sodas are FULL OF ASPARTAME. This is more evil than it first seems.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I switched to diet pop about six years ago and after Betty Martini was on Alex Jones’s show I’ve given up pop entirely.
That day I went out and bought a ton of 100% fruit juice.
I received an early Christmas gift from my girlfriend’s parents and it’s a book about Thomas Jefferson and the pursuit of happiness. The book basically starts with a healthy body is more important than the smartest mind to ever exist. One with good health and a poor mind is happier than one with poor health and a good mind. Pretty weird coincidence. It has certainly inspired me to eat healthier even if it costs more.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I really don’t blame Paterson or the state governments.
I do blame them for not coming out and blaming the real culprits: the private central bankers who got us leveraged into debt we cannot repay, dependent on their debt based economy instead of a savings based economy that made this country great.
If they want to save their names, however, they must become more vocal about THE REAL CRIMINALS (paulson, bernanke, rockefeller, rothschild, and gang.)
December 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
dont worry, they wont tax you if you poison yourself with aspartame!
December 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
What if you’re a 40 yr old who weights 108lbs???? Would people like that be charged an obesity tax to drink a regular soda?????
December 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Stevia is an herb that is 100 times sweeter than sugar, yet has no effects on glucose levels in the blood. We’ve been using it for years and wondered why Coke & Pepsi never concluded that it would be better than HF corn syrup or Aspartame in it’s products. Apparently Coca Cola has plans to roll it out in 2010 (suppose their contract w/ Equal expires then). You can find it in some sodas if you search for it. One bottled in the NW is called “Tevia”. . .ain’t bad. . .but costs 5.99 a six pack. FYI: You can buy Stevia online or in health food stores, but shop around because some stores have really inflated the price.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
91) Yes but only in NY
December 26th, 2008 at 11:02 am
That does not surprise me,They got them selves into the mess and they want us “the tax payers” to pay for the mess.It’s like that all over the place.