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San Fran mayor wants to charge stores that sell sodas

garn

Well-known member
More inside the link. Only in San Francisco could this happen. Then again, it was pretty much a given that once the good doers stamped out smoking, they would move on to fatty food and pop.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/MNF619OSF4.DTL

Calling soda the new tobacco, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will introduce legislation this fall that would charge a fee to retailers that sell sugary beverages.

Newsom would need voter approval to tax individual cans of soda and sugary juice, but only needs approval from the Board of Supervisors to levy a fee on retailers. His legislation would charge grocery stores like Safeway and big-box stores, but would not affect restaurants that serve sodas.

Newsom wouldn't say how much the stores would have to pay or how the city would spend the fees. When he first floated the idea in 2007, he said the money would go to his Shape Up San Francisco exercise program and for media campaigns to discourage soda drinking.

The mayor said the city attorney's office has warned him the city would probably be sued over the matter, but he said it is worth the risk to try to curb a leading cause of obesity and diabetes.
 
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Anonymous

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reader (the Second) said:
Why is soda any different that cigarettes or alcohol?

Coca Cola has put an ad campaign out there to combat this possibility. Imagine what would have happened if there had been television and Internet when we started taxing tobacco and alcohol.

The average American eats 22 teaspons of sugar a day, mostly soda. The average American child eats 34 teaspoons of sugar a day. There are 8 teaspoons of sugar in a can of regular soda. That's 800 calories. No nutritive value.

Are you saying there was no television when they taxed alcohol or cigaretts?

How about looking at it this away. Americans want to keep and spend some of what they work so hard for. Its only those with the freebies and free passes that are not voicing their opinions!
 

Mike

Well-known member
Another liberal politician fishing for ways to extract money from citizens.

Will it ever end? :roll:

The Democrats will not be satisfied until they receive 100% of all earnings and dole it back out as they see fit. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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