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June 9, 2009
Senate Looters Propose Lifestyle Taxes
Bureaucrats are planning to seize control of the healthcare industry and finance the power grab by taxing lifestyles.
The Senate Finance Committee is considering raising taxes on alcohol and imposing a new levy on soda and other naturally sweetened drinks to help pay for overhauling health care. The committee calls them "lifestyle tax proposals," saying the levies would slow sales of unhealthy products that contribute to rising medical costs. …
Besides alcohol, drinks with sugar, high fructose corn syrup and similar sweeteners would be targeted, though diet drinks with artificial sweeteners would not. Other industries also are on alert, worried that the idea of "lifestyle taxes" could spread to other products deemed unhealthy.
Imposing socialized medicine is expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years, so the lifestyle taxes will have to spread far and wide to pay the bills. Not even liberals will like the consequences. How about a homosexual depravity tax, since it's hard to imagine a lifestyle more likely to produce astronomical medical bills?
Even if there could ever be a good time to nationalize healthcare, this definitely wouldn't be it. The tax hikes required would be crippling even in the best of economic times. Add to this the cap and trade lunacy, and our only hope is that grownups will take control of the government soon and undo the Hopey Change before it results in a depression.
On a tip from Berkley.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 9, 2009 8:30 AM
Comments
I think liberals are just mad because that whole 'bash creationism' thing isn't really working out for them. Funny how sitting on ones' fat ass collecting entitlements and living on crack and crunchberries doesn't make one likely to fit into that whole survival of the fittest mantra, they have to get some retribution for the healthy people who have money and don't have to live like animals.
Posted by: Eric at June 9, 2009 8:49 AM
if the senate taxes my PBR, Royal Crown, & moon pies they will be unemployed in 2010........
Posted by: Bubba at June 9, 2009 8:50 AM
How about a troll tax?
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Posted by: 1835 at June 9, 2009 10:41 AM
Anyway these senatorial crinimals can rob us blind to finance some pork projects they all deserve to be sent to the spicemines of kessel or ELBA II for the rest of their lives
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 9, 2009 11:35 AM
"Besides alcohol, drinks with sugar, high fructose corn syrup and similar sweeteners would be targeted, though diet drinks with artificial sweeteners would not."
It's weird that diet drinks would be exempt, considering that the artificial sweeteners used in them are considered to be pretty harmful if consumed in large doses.
Posted by: Adam at June 9, 2009 11:43 AM
Wait .... this may not be such a bad idea afterall.
Do ya suppose they'll surtax the homosexuals based on their lifestyle choices?
Oh .... you already caught that in your comment.
God forbid! eek!
Posted by: Mike at June 9, 2009 12:22 PM
But...but...I thought the savings made from Universal Health Care would make extra taxes unnecessary. After all, eliminating all that wasteful competition, that wasteful bureaucracy...
Posted by: Brian, follower of Deornoth at June 9, 2009 12:44 PM
Does anyone really think that tax money is going to actually go to healthcare ? Murtha is salivating at the proposition.
Posted by: IOpian at June 9, 2009 1:52 PM
Look carefully........ almost EVERY food item that has any kind of processing these days includes high fructose corn syrup! That includes things you'd never expect to have sugar in them, like canned vegetables.
Posted by: Ex-bat at June 9, 2009 4:09 PM
"1835 at June 9, 2009 10:41 AM"
How about PAYING for your spam, ASSWIPE?
"SPURWING PLOVER at June 9, 2009 11:35 AM"
I would support a sales tax to fund that!
Posted by: KHarn at June 9, 2009 5:43 PM
Did you ever see the movie POPEYE with ROBIN WILLIAMS and SHELLY DUVALL? The unseen comador(popeyes father)taxes the citizens of SWEET HAVEN for everything they do just like those no good senators want to do
Posted by: Flu-Bird at June 9, 2009 9:16 PM
I want to ask this question for anyone seeking my vote in any upcoming election-Will you vote to overturn everything this administration has passed?
Posted by: oldguy at June 10, 2009 8:40 AM
DEMACRATS,MOONBATS AND THEIVES THATS WHAT THE CALLED US IN EVERYTOWN
Posted by: Condor at June 10, 2009 9:41 PM
