The Slippery Slope Has Arrived

[Der Nister]

I knew it would happen and here's some evidence.

Soda Tax

I knew it was just a matter of time (boy how fast those do gooders move) before lawmakers would start going after ordinary everyday items. First they'll band smoking (forget about car exhaust polutting our air). Oh and factories spewing out lethal deadly gases into our air and dumping toxic waste into our quickly vanishing fresh water supply, those companies don't mean any harm - right?

Anyway - now they want to tax our beloved soft drink for what? (They say) it's for our own good but I mean really, isn't that a red harring for the real reason, more money out of our pockets (and into theirs) and also (imo) the government's attempt to control us.

I mean really, do we need uncle sam to tell us "now Jerry - you can only have one pizza a year according to the state of Michigan. Any more would be criminal."

This whole taxing us to save us from ourselves is such bullshit!

[ttogreh]

Putting a tax on something guarantees that it will be with us until the end of time. Trans fat was literally KILLING people. The food industry got rid of it pretty damn quick. Tobacco has killed more human beings than trans fat could ever have. It's taxed... it ain't going anywhere.

[Der Nister]

Well lots of things can kill us humans, the question is - will taxing those things (to death) make life safer or is it just an out of control governmant running amok and trying to take us for every penny they can.

Which btw, will also kill people by putting them out on the street, and make them starve. Make them unable to pay for health insurance....ect.

So which is worse?

[Scales]

This is horrible. *pause for drink from can of soda*

"All I'm saying is let's have them (soda drinks) made available in other places than schools.."

No, actually all your saying is "Let's pass a stupid tax law, here I wrote this one- also, I'm probably a c**t."

Soda is unhealthy, but taxing it doesn't necessarily take it out of schools. This is the same word-twisting bs that comes from money-grubbing politicians.

*pause for drink from can of soda*

If someone taxes my Bawls I am going to be very upset, and yes, that was the right spelling.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

This is what you get for putting Democrats in charge. Wealth redistribution... from the middle class to the rich. They tax everythign they can.. hell, it was the Democrats that put a Tax on Death.

[Der Nister]

<---- sick of new taxes.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Then stop voting for Democrats.

[Destroit]

Then stop voting for Democrats.

That's generally my consensus. If you don't want insane taxes, vote republican, especially on a state level. Engler lowered taxes which made the unemployment rate lower (lowest in Michigan's history) because businesses could then afford to come here. Granholm has taxed so much so far I hope she gets hit by a car. Democrats many times also pass laws I don't care for at all and are really a waste of time. Take our governor for example, her other downfalls include, but are not limited to: Click it or ticket (thanks for saving us from ourselves, bitch geez, people aren't even allowed to live for danger anymore ), unnecessary road repairs (I'll admit, engler did it too), shutting down the government, trying to instate a service tax, having a drink WITHIN 50 FT OF A MINOR is now illegal regardless of if that minor is even drinking that drink or not.

Yes, that last one is true. If I am having a party at my house and someone there is underaged and there is alcohol in the house, if the cops come and bust up the party we're all going to jail even if that minor blows a clean breathalizer. Also, technically, if you're sitting on your couch on a Saturday night having a beer, and your teenage kid is sitting in the chair next to you, then you're a criminal at that point . That is now technically against the law.

The soda tax doesn't surprise me - California is definately a blue state. They're the same people that made it illegal to smoke ANYWHERE, among the slew of their inane laws recently passed. It just seems like there's so much bigger fish to fry, but here they are taxing pop

[Hellion]

How about a single-ply toilet paper tax,you never know when there will be a breakage throughage.

[Der Nister]

Click it or ticket (thanks for saving us from ourselves, bitch geez, people aren't even allowed to live for danger anymore )

LMAO!

Also, technically, if you're sitting on your couch on a Saturday night having a beer, and your teenage kid is sitting in the chair next to you, then you're a criminal at that point . That is now technically against the law.

Damn, when I was very young (oh about 2) my dad would let me sip his beer whenevr he would have a drink.

I miss the good old days of getting injured and not wearing helmets to ride bikes and almost killing ourselves just having fun.

Those were the good times.

[Hellion]

That's generally my consensus. If you don't want insane taxes, vote republican, especially on a state level. Engler lowered taxes which made the unemployment rate lower (lowest in Michigan's history) because businesses could then afford to come here. Granholm has taxed so much so far I hope she gets hit by a car. Democrats many times also pass laws I don't care for at all and are really a waste of time. Take our governor for example, her other downfalls include, but are not limited to: Click it or ticket (thanks for saving us from ourselves, bitch geez, people aren't even allowed to live for danger anymore ), unnecessary road repairs (I'll admit, engler did it too), shutting down the government, trying to instate a service tax, having a drink WITHIN 50 FT OF A MINOR is now illegal regardless of if that minor is even drinking that drink or not.

Yes, that last one is true. If I am having a party at my house and someone there is underaged and there is alcohol in the house, if the cops come and bust up the party we're all going to jail even if that minor blows a clean breathalizer. Also, technically, if you're sitting on your couch on a Saturday night having a beer, and your teenage kid is sitting in the chair next to you, then you're a criminal at that point . That is now technically against the law.

The soda tax doesn't surprise me - California is definately a blue state. They're the same people that made it illegal to smoke ANYWHERE, among the slew of their inane laws recently passed. It just seems like there's so much bigger fish to fry, but here they are taxing pop

[/quote,]

wait till the fart tax gets here,I'll betther will be a tax on 100% of everything,until there is a revolution,give it time.

[Hellion]

I look at the Bush Administration as an "Axis Of Evil",along with that Bitch Granholm.

[Destroit]

LMAO!

Damn, when I was very young (oh about 2) my dad would let me sip his beer whenevr he would have a drink.

I miss the good old days of getting injured and not wearing helmets to ride bikes and almost killing ourselves just having fun.

Those were the good times.

Yeeeap...I think red and blue are the devil.

Blue makes laws so everything is always politically correct so nobody get their poor little feelings hurt (oh boo hoo) on top of making us pay out the nose for it in taxes.

And red is just as crazy trying to make everything bibically correct, where it's definately not their place to do so. Oh and there's also the chance of a war monster coming along when there's a repub. in office.

Soooo if you look at it this way: "We live in America...fuck...we're so screwed" then life will start to make more and more sense everyday.

[Hellion]

All I can say is "Leave Me the fuck alone,Let me save myself,from myself.I don't need the forced help"sigh

[Destroit]

All I can say is "Leave Me the fuck alone,Let me save myself,from myself.I don't need the forced help"sigh

Thennn....you're republican?

[Hellion]

Thennn....you're republican?

I am neither

[Der Nister]

I'll come back to this thread later and take up the conversation when I have more time.

[Hellion]

And they call this a "free" country,nough said