New York guv’s recession prescription: Obesity taxes!
Reason number 99,786 I’m glad I’m not a New Yorker: The Democrat governor is proposing a tax on non-diet sodas — along with a bevy of other tax hikes — to cure the state’s economic ills.
After opposing higher taxes for months as counterproductive, Gov. David Paterson will seek to increase several taxes from gasoline to clothing, as well as make changes in the income tax that will make New Yorkers pay more fix state government’s fiscal crisis.
Although Paterson won’t seek to raise the rates of income taxes, a “broad based tax,” he will eliminate legal exemptions in the income tax that he considers “loop holes” and make further adjustments to make sure all taxpayers are paying their fair share, said Paterson budget spokesman Jeffrey Gordon.
Paterson’s 2009-10 budget proposal to the Legislature is scheduled for Tuesday. That’s a month early, part of Paterson’s effort to get a strong start to cutting spending and increasing revenues to deal with deficits he projects will total $47 billion over three years.
The Democrat also reportedly plans to increase taxes on insurance policies, on non-diet sodas under an “obesity tax,” reviving the state sales tax on clothing, and changes in funding of hospitals and health care providers that could shift more health costs on individuals and employers.
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That which is not taxed shall be considered a mandatory purchase.
WoW, That Saturday Night Live skit really ticked him off.
Lets see, so this guys idea to fix the economic problems is to increase the price of items and force MORE business into bankruptcy. Got it.
An obesity tax should hit this fathead really hard.
They’d take in more money if taxed stupidity
New York would pull in a lot more revenue if they just charged an Idiot Tax… except that the Governor would wind up flat broke. What a maroon.
How much does a Coke cost in New Jersey?
Huntress… you beat me to it.
Wow NY will make a bundle on Gerald Nadler and Chas Rangel. That is if they don’t weasel out of this tax too.
Only a fathead liberal would think of something like this.
It sounds like the blind leading the blind…
Hmm…tax all the fat people for being fat, then they won’t be able to afford food, then they’ll get thin, then they won’t have to pay the fat tax anymore.
Sweeeeeeeet.
Stupid tax would generate more revenue, and chances are these folks aren’t going to get smarter anytime soon.
Higher taxes and more regulation — the liberal left’s answer to everything.
Leaving the concept of the “Stoopud Tax Idee of the Day” aside, no one needs more snooping & harrassment in their lives. And for anyone with an iota of accurate & real nutritional knowledge, diet soft drinks have never helped anyone lose weight. While no soft drink is good for you, the diet type is the absolute worst, offering only possible neurological problems, while making people even more overweight. This is another example of intervention by dumb-a$$ no-nothings who are trying to look good on several different fronts. BTW, this is also more evidence that national health care will never work, & we will get 2 lies for one in that package.
This is the same squishy bass-ackward logic behind cigarette taxes. They say it’s to encourage folks to quit, but the truth is that the gubment would be screwed without the revenue. They are all just gutless corrupt lying bastards.
I can see it now,,, soda smuggling rings….
See, I can’t say much. I’m from IL…
This is what is coming nation wide. Huge tax increase in the next few years. Count on it. Obamas planning to spend 1 trillion MORE above what is already being spent.
Tax increases, count on it.
And soda Speakeasies….
Didn’t you get the memo the new PC term is Patriotic Contributions…at least that is what Joe Biden said.
new york state tax stickers on every can of mountian dew… with braile in case the taxer in chief needs to inspect you soda.
That memo was rough, I think I will stick to my normal toilet paper.
I guess taxing us bald folks is next!
Raising taxes, the cure-all for all of your spending deficits.
If it moves, tax it.
Wow, sounds like our Republik of Kalifornia.
I just want to take this opportunity to say I’m now selling soda credits. Every dollar I receive will be responsible for one less soda being consumed.
And if it stops moving bail it out…
Yeah, the glare from your head is raising the temperature.
AH!
There has been discussion by global warming alarmist to remove the carbon dioxide from all sodas.
“While the contribution of carbonated drinks to overall human carbon dioxide production in minuscule by comparison, it still amounts to maybe four million tonnes of CO2 per year”
If I didn’t know how envirowackos think, I would ask if you were kidding.
as an embarrased NYer- I just quit soda this morning after hearing this. Not that I drink it much. I refuuuuuuuuse to participate is this BS.
Well, if you won’t cut spending, and one of every seven jobs in the state is a government job, then something has to give.
In my case, it will be me, running for the border when I retire or am laid off, whichever comes first.
Of course, there will be a tax credit to those poor souls who suffer from soda addiction.
It’s nice that nothing is anyone’s fault anymore. Self-esteem way up and all.
God, we’re not far from a tax on enjoyment, testicles, and fingernails.
If they really want to balance the budget, impose a stupidity tax.
The Arnold has been chasing people from his socialist utopia to the RED STATES where they are now screwing up those states with their liberal crap.
Now all we need is for NY to start doing this crap and we RED STATES will be getting crapped on from liberal morons moving in from both sides of the country.
This is a modern day version of the taxes placed on tea & sugar that started the first revolution. It is time for a second american revolution.
DON’T TREAD ON ME!!!
Why not a tax on breathing, that way everyone would have to pay.
Does Drinking Soda Contribute to Global Warming?
By EarthTalk
So, extrapolating out, a typical car commute to work produces upwards of 700 times the greenhouse gases as drinking that can of Coke.
But cans and bottles of carbonated (or non-carbonated) drinks are still no friends of the environment. The production and distribution of single-serving beverages of all kinds generates untold millions of tons of greenhouse gases and other pollutants every year
Its coming, of that I am very sure.
I live in VA and I can tell you that is exactly what is happening on this end of the red state area. These sanctimonious self righteous morons are voting for the exact policies that they fled in the NE. We’re sitting here watching a former prosperous state fall into socialist decay, and they’re really only getting started.
We in Boston dumped the tea into Boston harbor, feel free to steal the idea and turn New York harbor into one big bubbling cauldron of seltzer.
Just don’t dress up like Indians, it’s not PC.
ROFLMAO!!
Laugh out loud funny! Wrong! Evil! But darn funny!
Good God, let’s just cut to the chase and put a hammer-and-sickle on the US flag! The country I used to know is dead and buried.
The thing about higher taxes: “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”
Think of soda smuggling as just another Kennedy business opportunity.
That schmuck Carter tried higher taxes too and succeeded in creating a booming accounting industry. Did the US government actually collect more money from its citizenry? I would be interested in finding out the details.
I had the same thought. If they’re going to make my morning Coke even more expensive, maybe it’s time to just give up and drink beer all the time. This would have the added benefit of making the stuff coming out of Albany all the time seem more reasonable.
Obesity taxes?
What about Charlie Rangel? How’s he going to survive?
Oh yes. Corruption will pay for it.
NY already has a $0.05 deposit on soda bottles and cans. The effort needed to raise that to $0.10 is next to nothing. Much, if not most, of these deposits are not redeemed by the consumer, to the state wants the unredeemed funds turned over to the treasury.
I Love New York….
No doubt that is on the horizon…”climate change” caused by co2 expelled by humans and cow fluctuation.
opps, spelling error: “flatulence”.
New York reminds me of the very funny POPEYE MOVIE of a decade ago. Everything that moved, breathed, did business, or broke wind (f****d) got taxed. However, this is for real–not a movie.
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Many people and companies are bailing out from New York and California–the more the taxes go up and the more environmental wacko stuff that goes on forces them to vote with their feet. What will happen when the jobs are gone?
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The Hughes Company used to build the AMRAAM Air to Air Missile in Kalifornia–they moved to Tucson, Arizona and cut the cost by 37 percent (I think). Thousands of jobs left Kalifornia–and many lost their jobs there. The state lost the tax income. The U.S. Air Force got the same missile much cheaper.
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The bad part of this is that the liberals move to Nevada, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Florida, etc. and bring their poor voting and lifestyle choices from blue states to red states. And don’t even start on their drug and illegal alien amnesty laws.
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Those who keep voting for high tax and high spending liberals should be forced to live in the states they screwed up. I don’t want them to “spread the misery” to my state–Texas.
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John Bibb
I wonder how will those silly New Yorkers do it (the liberal kind, by the way)? Perhaps they will tax on a per folicle basis?
I shop at the Big and Tall Men’s store. Will my clothes be subject to an extra tax? How about the ladies who shop at Lane Bryant? It’s discrimination I tell ya, whom do I sue? I’m offended!
It’s hate! That’s what it is! The NY governor is a hatemonger!
i would like to see the zombies that work in my supermarket try to differentiate between diet and non-diet soda.
I think we “Red Staters” should have our state governments mandate a test on the Constitution before allowing someone to establish residency. That oughta keep the liberals at bay. So far, our “home-grown” liberals are a minority, and we want to keep them that way.
Oklahoma HR 1804 – doing what the Federal Government refuses to do.
ECS
I believe this is what it is coming to.
Fixed it.
One who chooses to live in a cesspool shouldn’t be surprised by the smell.
You get the government you deserve…
I am obese. I think Benny Hill would call it, “grossen herren.” However, I dont drink sugared sodas, nor sugar free ones for that matter either, simply because I dont have a taste for them. The same for my wife, although she’s not fat like I am.
So somebody here help me – If we were residents of NY State, how would our abstinence of sodas, that is not buying them anyway thereby not paying the fat tax, help the economy of NYS?
Just asking.
And when the blind leads the blind, both fall into a ditch. Jesus said so.
This is true – i can testify first hand.
Dress up like Muslim jihadis – nobody’d dare touch you.
this is just the first step on the path to the real target, fast food money. we need an obesity tax on mcd and burger king because they are successful and have money. we have taxed everyone else to the point of insurrection, so let’s go after this group of money making businesses. a better idea would be to tax hospitals which hide behind religious tax laws.
The tax on insurance is meant to drive up the number of uninsured so they can cry about the “need” for socialized health care, right?
On December 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am,
Ad if it stops moving again, bail it out again.