Comments on: More on the “obesity tax” http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/22/more-on-the-obesity-tax/ A repository of random thoughts, odds and ends, and not-quite-fully-formed ideas. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:59 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Colour1 http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/22/more-on-the-obesity-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-4214 Colour1 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:08:06 +0000 http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/?p=1183#comment-4214 Maybe it will save some lives!! Besides, have you seen the size of kids today??? is there no "PE" as we know it??? If I wasn't run over by some crazy kids in 01 I'd still be playing golf two-three times a week and walk every hole!! I'm a little lose in the middle and it kills me! but these people don't care! This I think is a form of depression!When you watch these huge people eat at restaurents do they look HAPPY??? The two main soda companys have been getting fat maybe this will tighten up there belt! Merry Christmas Noreen!! I did say MERRY CHRISTMAS! Happy New Year!! Colour1 Maybe it will save some lives!! Besides, have you seen the size of kids today??? is there no “PE” as we know it???
If I wasn’t run over by some crazy kids in 01 I’d still be playing golf two-three times a week and walk every hole!! I’m a little lose in the middle and it kills me! but these people don’t care! This I think is a form of depression!When you watch these huge people eat at restaurents do they look HAPPY???
The two main soda companys have been getting fat maybe this will tighten up there belt!
Merry Christmas Noreen!!
I did say MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Happy New Year!!
Colour1

]]> By: Steve C. http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/22/more-on-the-obesity-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-4213 Steve C. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:01:44 +0000 http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/?p=1183#comment-4213 Garbage I say. Anything can be addictive. like biting your nails. gonna tax that? I wrote paterson and Journal news a letter. Havent heard word back. wonder if i will. thats ok. because i plan on sending my next one to Daily news and others. I taste aspartame, It's disgusting. I have no choice but to like sugar besides i like it anyway just fine. I dont over do it. Anything overdone is no good for you everything is about moderation. But taxing us on taxed dollars doesnt answer anything. The idea that we are all sitting back allowing a sugar tax is ludicrous. We have all the representation in the word now for being taxed. I for one am standing up and trying to be heard and will continue. My sister in law told me the other day that one person sending a letter can't make a difference. I disagree. Just ask Thomas Payne. and a few others. Let's see the money used correctly. Today on the news .. i heard 9 million take mass transit. So lets do some math. round trip would be 38 million dollars a day. (not counting tolls) the MTA cannot run on 38 million dollars a day? why because their execs are making 300k. thats why. so raise the faire to 3 dollars and close down service. thats real helpful. So booth and railmen get fired so he can make his 300k. I dont see a single news agency harping on the fact that these taxes are unconstitutional and wrong. they ask the question to perk up and tease the news. but do they help the public do anything about it? no. Instead they have feeders that say, 5 cent deposit on bottled goods isnt a tax. when the govt hopes/counts/and makes it so you dont redeem it, its a tax. So sure just because you are overweight tax sugar because you dont eat it. so the rest of us have to suffer. Lets see. we make money, pat stat/fed/local/county/ss taxes. with what is left we wind up buying foods and goods that are then taxed again. plus some foods and goods have additional costs. so .08% plus 5 cents plus.... and there you have it. you pay for things with money already given to the state and government. and do state/fed govt officials pay these same taxes? no they dont. sales tax yeah, but many state workers are exempt from state taxes as are federal employees exempt from fed tax. If I am wrong I would like someone to prove it. Garbage I say. Anything can be addictive. like biting your nails. gonna tax that?
I wrote paterson and Journal news a letter. Havent heard word back. wonder if i will. thats ok. because i plan on sending my next one to Daily news and others.

I taste aspartame, It’s disgusting. I have no choice but to like sugar besides i like it anyway just fine. I dont over do it. Anything overdone is no good for you everything is about moderation. But taxing us on taxed dollars doesnt answer anything. The idea that we are all sitting back allowing a sugar tax is ludicrous. We have all the representation in the word now for being taxed. I for one am standing up and trying to be heard and will continue.

My sister in law told me the other day that one person sending a letter can’t make a difference. I disagree. Just ask Thomas Payne. and a few others.
Let’s see the money used correctly.
Today on the news .. i heard 9 million take mass transit. So lets do some math.
round trip would be 38 million dollars a day. (not counting tolls) the MTA cannot run on 38 million dollars a day? why because their execs are making 300k. thats why. so raise the faire to 3 dollars and close down service. thats real helpful. So booth and railmen get fired so he can make his 300k.

I dont see a single news agency harping on the fact that these taxes are unconstitutional and wrong. they ask the question to perk up and tease the news. but do they help the public do anything about it? no. Instead they have feeders that say, 5 cent deposit on bottled goods isnt a tax. when the govt hopes/counts/and makes it so you dont redeem it, its a tax.
So sure just because you are overweight tax sugar because you dont eat it. so the rest of us have to suffer.
Lets see. we make money, pat stat/fed/local/county/ss taxes. with what is left we wind up buying foods and goods that are then taxed again. plus some foods and goods have additional costs. so .08% plus 5 cents plus….
and there you have it. you pay for things with money already given to the state and government. and do state/fed govt officials pay these same taxes? no they dont. sales tax yeah, but many state workers are exempt from state taxes as are federal employees exempt from fed tax. If I am wrong I would like someone to prove it.

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