One of the primary functions of liberals is to tell others how they must live. Whether it's what we eat, or drink, or smoke, or drive, or how we raise our children, liberals seem to have this "6th sense" that allows them to know what's good for us even more than we do. In most cases, it's simply "junk science", which the Left uses to try and change the lives of everyone so that we conform to how "they" think we should live.
Now, New York State's blind, black, and unelected governor, who, like all NY political hacks, is always inventing ways to generate more revenue, has (once again) unleashed the FoodNazi's. No, the enemy is not tobacco or trans-fats. This time it's soda. That's right, soft drinks. You know, that can of instant death you open when you're hot and thirsty. The same stuff we've been drinking for about 100 years now, the stuff that's probably killed, what, hundreds, thousands, millions?
As is usually the case with the Left, they first choose a target, (tobacco, fast-food, etc.) then, using junk science, create fear and hysteria about that target. Is this all done for health reasons? No. It's simply done to generate more revenue, using health as a cover! Hey, don't kid yourself. Junk science combined with hysteria can be very profitable. As an example, in the state of Kentucky, the tax on a pack of smokes is $.30. In NYC, it's $3.25 per pack. Now a logical mind might ask, if a product is so dangerous, why not ban it? The answer of course, is very simple. If you ban a product, you lose the tax revenue. So, is it about health, or just old-fashioned greed and liberals desire to control everything and everybody?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,472313,00.html
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Just for the sake of comparison, according to the American Cancer Society the annual death toll from smoking related causes is 444,000. According to the NIAAA, our annual total alcohol related mortality falls within a range of 103,000 to 112,000.
There is no doubt that we are getting fatter as a nation. You have but to look around to see how many of our fellow Americans are carrying around excess avoirdupois. However, we must balance the politicians' cries for regulation and taxation of food and drink under the guise of protecting our health against the fact that millions of Americans went from merely overweight to morbidly obese with the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen when the US DHHS changed the manner of body mass index calculation.
Most all state governments, burdened by the constitutional requirement for a balanced budget are in a panic because of falling tax revenues and are frantically looking for methods of revenue enhancement. Our business partner is an agent with one of the largest auto and property insurers in the country. The Nevada DMV sends out notices to drivers when its records indicate that the driver lacks the required minimum liability insurance coverage. Approximately 95% of these notices that he receives on his clients are in error. In a normal year he would get about 100 such notices. I retired on November 19th of this year and by that time he had received in excess of 350 no-liability notices. If an auto owner is convicted of driving with no liability coverage, the DMV suspends his registration, fines him $250 and mandates that he obtain an SR22 bond [proof of financial responsibility] that generates additional fees.
Now, would a reasonable person determine that this threefold increase in bogus notices is merely an error on the part of the Nevada DMV? Or would one conclude that it is an attempt to extort additional revenue from those naïf’s who just assume that any letter that they receive on official state stationery is correct?
so i buy smokes in Kentucky & sell them in NY
I'll be rich
Buy the best canabis sativa seeds you can find, apply modern agricultural methods of increasing the Delta 9 THC concentration and you'll become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.
But conservatives want to tell you who you can love or marry.
The gub'ment wouldn't be able to feed a cat a can of Meow Mix on the tax on the sodas I drink yearly. If I drink a case per year, I'd be surprised. I don't smoke, I've cut back on steak biscuits and fries for breakfast, same for Fillet of Mullet, Big Macs and Whoppers.
I guess they'll have to raise my property taxes.
Wait, none of my stuff is worth much. Uh oh, I'm a burden on society.
Meow Mix is dry food that doesn't come in cans.
And I find myself oddly in agreement with HLF's last statement. I'll give him a moment to recant that statement or at least spin it some moronic way. I would feel much better.
While I am not saying smoking is good for you, those number are highly inflated. Basically, if you die of any of the bajillion things they tie to smoking and you are around cigarette smoke, it counts as a smoking related death. In other words, if you eat Big Macs and milkshakes ever day for lunch and dinner and bacon cooked in lard for breakfast and your roomate smokes and you die of a heart attack, it counts as a smoking related death. Everybody dies of something and sometimes smoking really is not a cause. Again not saying smoking is good for you but those number are inflated. As for soda, if this is to encourage people to be healthy, why is he predicting an INCREASE in soda tax revenues in the following years. Is he dumb enough to come up with a plan and implement it knowing full well it will fail or is the plan all along just to screw people out of more of their hard-earned money.
You make a very good point Missy. As we all know, you can make statistics look like anything you want them to. As one example, i give you "His Majesty" Bloomberg, NYC's limp-wristed, control-freak mayor. He said, "400,00 children die each year in NYC from second-hand smoke". Needless to say, if this were even close to being true, i'd be stepping on little bodies every time i left my house! As usual, he doesn't have a shred of scientific, documented evidence to prove his claim, but apparently, that no longer matters. Once the hysteria has been started, (as with global warming and a dozens of other things) it takes on a life of it's own.
As for soda, i must admit to being a lover of Pepsi. For some odd reason, it (and Gator-Aid) is the only thing that truly quenches my thirst. But i've cut back to where i now drink a 12oz. can about once-a-week. If that's going to kill me, so be it.
Whether it's soda or cigarettes, or anything else they claim is killing us, i say ban it. Common sense should tell you that if you can prove a product is truly dangerous to public health, then outlaw it! But, you must prove your claims. Short of doing that, it's just a grab for more of our money.
HLF said...
But conservatives want to tell you who you can love or marry.
You can love anyone or anything you like. But if you desire the "official status" of marriage, then you must follow the established and accepted rules.
I'm sure HLF has no habits nor desires nor indulgences which aren't sanctified by the granola munchers.
FYI:
"America's toughest sheriff," Joe Arpaio, is set to star in Smile…You're Under Arrest!, a Candid Camera-cum-America's Most Wanted reality TV show in which scofflaws are lured into arrest through elaborated setups. The program debuts Saturday on Fox, of course.
The controversial Maricopa County - Arizona - Sheriff, who has been accused of famewhoring, says that producers approached him with the show and added, "This is just another outside-the-box effort to join forces with the private industry/Hollywood to use certain techniques. It's entertainment. But on the other hand, we're able to accomplish a mission and also arrest people out on warrants."
The show will be another unconventional approach to crime and punishment, his others including infamous Tent City and mandatory pink underpants for inmates.
Show creator and producer Scott Satin says, "I just think he's quite the character and he's great on camera. Sheriff Joe, he's willing to go out and get these guys and do whatever he takes."
Depending on how the first three half-hour episodes perform, Fox could be interested in doing more.
It might receive some stiff competition from To Catch A Predator!
ooh 000h - new conspiracy theory - Fat Teddy actually drowned along with Mary Jo way back when, but space aliens transplanted Elvis' brain into Teddy's body.
explains a lot doesn't it??
Idiot liberals like 'Hateful Liberal Freak' are in favor of legislating "respect".
You must "respect" homosexual acts. You must "respect" killing babies. You must "respect" the lowest common denominator and change your lives to be like them.
You must "respect" liberal politicians by paying ALL the taxes they tell you to put in their slimy little hands or you are unpatriotic.
That's why liberals like HLF are nazi-like idiots that all thinking people ridicule.
As a conservative I believe that the basic human rights come from my creator. Liberals think they come from the government.
In most states you can pump your own gas, but in Oregon you cannot.
Why? Because a liberal government says so.
That same government refuses some cancer medicine but will provide assistance for suicide.
In NJ you cant pump your own gas either but considering out gas prices tend to be some of the lowest in the nation, I don't want to rock any boats on that issue!
Let them eat quiche
off topic
New state motto for Illinois: "Where the governors make the license plates."
'Cream of Crap Soup'
LOL, Blue!
yo Jimbo - Moonbattery now tells me I'm "403 Forbidden"
maybe the Obama minions have found a way to silence the opposition
Blue - I'm able to get on Moonbattery today - but couldn't last week.
Moonbats strike back... the only chickenshit way they know how, by silencing people with brains.
Blue -
FYI - Vans email: vanhelsing@moonbattery.com
In case you want to complain or get to the bottom of whatever bug is blocking you.
Near as I can tell the only posts Van regularly deletes are HLF's (Dino's) just because HLF is such a rude useless schmuck.
Perfect example.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474451,00.html
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