“ Enough is Enough!!!
tell the Government to bus out of our lives I will eat what I want and drink what I want ...its time to send all these lawmakers back to where they came from they are Hypocrites who are they to lecture us on eating habbits and iur health. ”

“ If you want to eat junk, that's fine. The problem is that so many people give this junk to their children. ”

“ What happens when we all get off soda, where will they get their money from, What other law will they come up with? ”

“ These taxes are:

1. an attempt to engineer our behavior according to the Leftist Agenda, and;
2. raise revenues so that the ruling elite can have bigger salaries, more comprehensive health benefits, better compensation packages, etc.

This is another example of American Fascism taking all of us in. ”

“ Mayor Bloomberg is for this tax? Very interesting.... ”

“ Their goal is to tack on a penny-per-ounce tax to drinks with added sugar. The more sugar the more tax ? ”

“ How about Taxing McDonalds food. However bad soda is the McDonalds food is 10x worse. ”

“ Somewhere, a bunch of New York liberals are high-fiving themselves as they have been successful with yet another intrusive money-grubbing tax that will accomplish two things:
1) More revenue so that they can further intrude on your lives with even more governmental programs "for your own good", of course.
2) It will provide yet another excuse to be more intrusive into people's lives. Next thing, they'll audit your grocery bills to determine if you bought items that the government deems to be "healthy". If not, look for an "unhealthy" tax.

I'll admit that years ago, I would have laughed at the idea of a soda tax, but now, nobody's laughing anymore. ”

“ This New York Liberal is not and never was in favor of this type of money-grubbing tax. This NY Liberal is highly opposed to it. This NY Liberal believes in live and let live except when someone is in danger. This NY Liberal is not alone in this thinking. In fact, this NY Liberal thinks you, Mr. Midwestern Guy, since you don't even live here, should mind your business. You know, the kind of business that you blame liberals for intruding into. ”

“ Some combination of tax increases and/or spending cuts are needed to balance the state budget. All who oppose this tax increase should state what other tax they would like to increase, and/or state exactly what programs of benefit to their community should be cut. ”

“ Mind my own business? First, you don't know where I live. Second, a lot of other cities look at New York when they craft their own laws. These kinds of things have a way of creeping elsewhere.

Also, if you believe in "live and let live" then you're not a very typical liberal. Most liberals believe in regulating everything, which is the opposite of letting people do as they please.

But thanks for reinforcing the notion that many New Yorkers are obnoxious. ”

“ Here's how you do it. You cut taxes. That way spending increases, more merchandise is sold, more taxes are collected. Incentivize spending, not punish it. ”

“ What about Kedem grape juice with 37 grams of sugar per cup more than any soda? Oh, I forgot it has "no sugar added"! Concentrated grape juice, nah, that's not sugar, naw, our pancreases just love that fructose, arrgh! While we're at it what about apple and orange juice they have the same sugar content as soda. Let's just tax everything up to our eyeballs, that will solve all our problems. Ah! Utopia! ”

“ They should impose a tax on red meat since it is a much bigger threat to health and well being than carbonated beverages. There is no need to eat meat. Raising the meat is a big souce of global warming (fertilizer for the feed, flatulence from the animanls and energy used to transport them to the shlachthois). Instead, they should use the proceeds from a meat tax to subsidize healthy vegetarian alternatives. Even traditional foods like chulent taste much better when made with tofu rather than fatty meat. ”

“ Yes, fruit juice has a huge amount of sugar and probably isn't any better for you than the sweetened soft drinks. There is no reason to exclude it from the tax.

What services to your community would you forgo so that this tax would be unnecessary? ”

“ Nope, it doesn't work that way.

Suppose you cut state sales taxes 1%, from the current 4% to 3%. That is a 25% cut in revenues. The 1% cut in taxes would have to result in a sales volume increase of over 33% just to stay even. There is no product for which the price elasticity of demand is so great that one would see that kind of impact. And the state can't afford to merely stay even, as its budget is out of balance; it needs more revenue.

Nobody likes new taxes, at least on themselves. But we are stuck with the arithmetic. ”

“ Nope, it doesn't work that way.

Suppose you cut state sales taxes 1%, from the current 4% to 3%. That is a 25% cut in revenues. The 1% cut in taxes would have to result in a sales volume increase of over 33% just to stay even. There is no product for which the price elasticity of demand is so great that one would see that kind of impact. And the state can't afford to merely stay even, as its budget is out of balance; it needs more revenue.

Nobody likes new taxes, at least on themselves. But we are stuck with the arithmetic. ”

“ Yes, fruit juice has a huge amount of sugar and probably isn't any better for you than the sweetened soft drinks. There is no reason to exclude it from the tax.

What services to your community would you forgo so that this tax would be unnecessary? ”