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Brooklyns_Finest
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:08 PM Original message |
What do you think about Patterson's Obesity tax? |
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Dennis Donovan
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's Paterson with one "t" |
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Deep13
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have been suggesting that for years. nt |
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flvegan
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. Better phys ed, good start. Teaching parents nutrition, better start. |
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Fumesucker
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. In my experience phys ed was just an opportunity for the coaches to humiliate the "weaklings" |
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aquart
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. He's a fool not to tax diet soda as well. That stuff is poison. |
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valerief
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Coca Cola and Pepsi are transitioning to Stevia and leaving the deadly artificial sweetners behind. |
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Spectral Music
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. I just read that sucralose (Splenda) began in a pesticide lab |
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TomInTib
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. So true. |
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mondo joe
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. It's the high fructose corn syrup he ought to be taxing. NT |
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Spectral Music
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. So many of the studies on the safety of artificial sweetners are funded by the companies making them |
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TomInTib
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. We started a movement like that in Klein, Texas. |
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MarkInCA
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. I thought that was struck down somewhere? |
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valerief
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. It's more a HFCS tax than a Sugar tax. Very few sodas are made with sugar now. nt |
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ProfessorGAC
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
29. HFCS Is Sugar |
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high density
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Maine just tried taxing soda |
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JeanGrey
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. I think it sucks, and sure, let's fail a smart kid because he's |
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CTyankee
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'm all for it. I don't see it as "punishment" at all. These drinks are helping to increase obesity |
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RoadRage
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. Eh.. i could take it or leave it |
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Brooklyns_Finest
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I doubt the guy who is running 10 miles a day is |
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RoadRage
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Thu Dec-18-08 11:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. My little brother.. |
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Johonny
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. sin tax is generally not unusual |
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guardian
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Thu Dec-18-08 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. Too much big brother control over my life. |
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tabbycat31
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Thu Dec-18-08 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. soda is taxed in NY |
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Rhiannon12866
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Fri Dec-19-08 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. First heard this the other night on Letterman, but he got it mixed up. |
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alittlelark
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Fri Dec-19-08 04:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. Uh, that piece of you OP about grade advancement.... |
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Spectral Music
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Fri Dec-19-08 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
22. Actually, it's not a tax on obesity per se. Nonetheless, NOT THE TIME FOR NEW TAXES |
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Sanctified
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
23. Well in reality Government never taxes because they want people not to do something. |
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Fumesucker
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:25 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Alcohol is provably bad for the population, I think we ought to ban it.. |
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depakid
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
28. No problem with that- same deal as taxing alcohol or tobacco |
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earth mom
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Fri Dec-19-08 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
30. What bullshit. Next they will be taxing all of us to breathe. |
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Vinca
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Fri Dec-19-08 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
31. I would be enthusiastic about the tax if the money was used |
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