Believe it or not, some people are delighted with New York Governor
David Paterson's outrageous 18% tax on nondiet soda — like Nicholas
Kristof of the New York Slimes, who doesn't shy away from comparing
the current jihad against food with the greedy plundering of the
tobacco industry:
These days, sugary drinks are to American health roughly what
tobacco was a generation ago. A tax would shift some consumers,
especially kids, to diet drinks or water.
But it isn't just soda that makes people fat. Where does the punitive
taxation stop? With moonbats like Kristof, it never stops:
One of industry's objections is that soft drinks aren't the only
problem. That's true, and I'd love to see a "Twinkie tax" as well.
The list of foods subject to denunciation by liberal elite nanny Nazis
includes not only Coca-Cola and Twinkies, but every other comestible
they can think of except arugula, unsalted celery stalks, and the
olives that come in their Grey Goose martinis.
The endlessly rising taxes are bad enough. There's no need to add
insult to injury with the insufferable condescension of totalitarian
twits like Kristof, who think we can't even feed ourselves without
government intervention.
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