The blind morons from NYC (pun intended), who have been making millions off of people getting cancer, via egregious excise taxes, have decided to declare sugary treats (soda, candy etc.) sinful. In an amazing broad daylight mugging, Governor Patterson is raising taxes on cigarettes, by another buck, and adding something new to this years sales tax: 1 cent tax per ounce of soda. How fucking quaint of him.
If local governments continue to abuse their powers via an authoritarian taxing system, people are going to say “fuck you asshole” and throw their coca-cola bottles into the East River, not too much different than the Boston Tea Party. I get it; people are fat and they need to eat healthier. But taxing soda is not going to put broccoli in the faces of America’s obese.
PepsiCo, Inc. [[PEP]] and The Coca-Cola Company [[KO]] have to be sells on this sort of news. If they are going to get the Phillip Morris treatment, next thing you know, the government will sue them for hospital expenses, for treating uninsured fat fuckers.
On a positive note, NYS wants more wine consumption, in order to make more tax revenue. So, they have decided to let grocery stores sell wine. How nice of them.
Just to recap.
Soda: bad
Wine: good
Cigarettes: so very bad. But, an excellent revenue generator.
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