I think there should be a huge tax put on the networks for the use of the nations airwaves.  It would be good for the nations bottomline.

Oh boy!  We've found another U.S. idustry to destroy!  Let's get going.

Brilliant!  I suspect this will have the same result as the cigarette taxes - after all, we now live in a smoke-free America!

Still, this is a bit of a bummer.  It probably means no more $.99 2 liter Coke sales. 

-Dead Ted

"I think it should be two cents per ounce. I don't mind paying more for
it, it would probably discourage me from drinking it."

Precisely why this will not get the Billion dollars they are looking for...I am not an economist, so why can I see this when Dems who want to tax everything do not?!

The hair  on my belly is caught in my zipper.   Is there any govt. employee or media figure who can save me....?

LOGIC FAIL. If people stop buying the soda due to the tax, the revenues from the tax drop (and therefore do not contribute to "the bottom line"). If the tax revenues drop, what does she think the government will do next? Just say "oh well" and start cutting back on spending?

It's still legal to ship soft drinks across state lines so one could reasonably order online, get a case or two shipped to the residence and avoid the tax.

....*"For years there's been an effort to make students healthier by keeping
sugary soft drinks out of schools. And a report out today says it seems
to be working....Now Michelle Miller tells us this campaign is expanded
beyond the classroom and from kids to adults."*

Make students healthier? Seems to be working? Really? Since when is it the governments responsibility to make anyone healthier? Is that what the founding fathers had in mind when they created our republic? I can just picture Benjamin Franklin sitting around the table as they drafted our founding documents and saying "Making people healthy is something we must concern ourselves with". Since the Behavioral Control Police(BCP) started with the 'remove sugary drinks from schools' campaign, America's childhood obesity problem has only gotten worse, so I guess it only seems to be working, because in reality, IT'S NOT WORKING.

Now that the BCP has decided controlling student behavior is obviously not enough, they plan to expand this infringement of personal choice to ALL Americans. What they do not understand is that the cash windfall they are expecting will never materialize.

People will buy less. Pepsi and Coke will be forced to layoff workers, salespeople, truck drivers etc. Bottle manufacturers will have to layoff people. Plastic twist cap manufacturers will layoff people. Then supermarkets will layoff people due to lower sales volumes. You get the picture.

When will America wake up and stop this intrusion on our individual freedoms? Our government, whether they be local, state, or federal; all have the belief that its citizens exist for THEIR BENEFIT. We need to end this outlandish overreaching of the government on all levels.

Personal responsibilty and individual rights are at stake.

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

Now, I know we've got some wealthy members here at NB, but I suspect the majority of us don't have to worry about this tax. I mean, read my lips, this new tax will not apply to any individuals earning less than $200k -or families earning less than $250k annually. All you have to do it take your 1040 to the grocery store and you can pay the middle class price.

Please God, make these mind numb cheerleaders for statism go away.  This is insane.  You place taxes on sugary soft drinks with the explicit intention of REDUCING consumption but you expect HIGHER revenues for the state.  Huh?  And as anyone like me who lives in states like New York, these tax schemes are always sucked into the mouth of a giant beast that is never satisfied (hence paying 5.50 to cross 50 year old bridges).  Hey, remember when your state's lottery games would bring in extra cash?  What happened?

Coke, Pepsi and other soft drink companies should go John Galt. The message should be clear:  tax to hurt us and we won't do business.

I've said for years that liberals never met taxes they didn't like (with apologies to Will Rogers).  If they had their druthers, they would put taxes on just about everyone and everything (except themselves, of course). 

This is the Nanny State gone amok.  We're tired of these busybodies telling us what to do; it's time to tell them, "Buzz off!"

calculate national debt ..divide by all liberals and send each one a bill to pay for it all..

They want it, they can pay for it..

What does coke and pepsi think about this, it will surely cut into their revenue.

 Is that legal to tax other peoples products and hard work. Don't these companies already pay tax, maybe they are getting 12cent per soda kick back.

I smoke and now order my smokes off the net, have allways rolled my own.  My savings from the net are over 120 bucks per order, including shipping,  yea that cigarette tax worked real well for florida!!!

I am now getting it imported from NY oh the irony

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on"--Thomas Jefferson

Again, simple math, if you think the soda consumtion will remain the same i.e. 1 billion ounces sold, then say ok, were going to make one billion extra dollars, but yet you also promote decreased consumption, so less money, then when you over spend your estimate, you will say there is a shortfall, so lets raise more taxes. It is so earily similar to what Jim Doyle did here in Wisconsin, taxed cigs a dollar, now im not a smoker, and could care less, dont smoke in my house, but when they estimated the tax increase as if not one person was going to cut back, then were shocked when revenue was not where they predicted. Leave my soda alone!! I live on dew, will still buy dew, and as always, look for the sales, btw, 42, not 18.  

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?…  

Ceteris paribus

I'm sure those 'billions of dollars' she refers to are based on sales of soda being at least what they are now. Of course, it's like a new toll booth: people find new routes to avoid the toll. People here will drink different stuff; the whole 'reduce obesity' thing might work out swell, but not the 'billions of dollars' pipe dream that NY Lib hacks have.

How about an MSM tax?  Maybe that would curtail the negative influence on society the MSM has.  Or, maybe it would force the MSM to be more "fair and balanced," resulting in more viewership.  That'd would be far more effective and beneficial than a tax on soda.

So, is this a tax only on soda with sugar, fructose and such as sweeteners or will low/no calorie soda be included?

If they include all of the sodas, then the message is:  "We just want the money." 

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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!

The City of Brotherly Love is proposing a $0.02 per ounce tax on sodas. The chief nut Mayor Nutter thinks this will raise $77M in new revenue for the city which has a budget shortfall of about $50M. So their plan is to tax, then increase the budget by $27M! WTF are they thinking. There will be a significant dropoff in consumption and the extra $27M they are spending will contribute further to the deficit. My guess is that they will get somewhere near $40M if they do this. After all, people only need to cross over US1 to get soda that isn't taxed so heavily.

Hermano is Saving the Environment - One Ribeye at a Time! h/t Dr_Liberty

$0.10 per word - $0.05 if what they are saying actually makes sense.

Just think of the server Matthew would be able to purchase in about a year.  :-)

-Dave

You know. Hijack a bunch of Coca-Cola trucks, drive them to a bridge over the Hooch (that's Chattahoochee River for those of you who ain't from here) and start pouring it over the railing.

-Dave

1040 EZ (2010)

Line 1)  How much did you earn last year? $____________._____

Line 2) How much you owe (see line 1)     $____________._____

 http://www.sodastreamusa.com/

 Make your own, kind of like prohibition and bath tub gin in the 1930's  ;)

Stupid nanny-state, progressive liberals at it again! Only one who profited were the gangsters a la Al Capone

  So they are taxing soda to get people to drink less soda.

  In other words, if you tax something, you get less of it.

  So this is an implicit endorsement of the Laffer Curve by the MSM. If you raise income taxes beyond a certain point, you get less income taxes as people have less incentive to work. Lowering income taxes can get you more income taxes to a certain point. People have more incentive to work harder or longer as they get to keep more of their money.

  Got it. The Laffer Curve. Thank you MSM.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

 Let's charge $17 per Coca Cola in New York State.Make the price of a pack of cigarettes... oh about $30.Raise the state income tax to 50%.... Then we can pay for everyone to have free rent, utilities, food, insurance, "health care" etc. Why should ANYONE have to "work?" What a nightmare. If people worked, they might be exposed to "majority white heterosexuals"... who of course, wish, deep down that we were all slaves..... damn them.. slap an additional 50% tax on White Male employers for such an arrogant attitude. If only we had a NEGRO DEMOCRAT president... that would TEACH YOU A LESSON!!!  

              This is the stupid govt. trying to control us, again. It will not work. It never works. People will still drink what they want. People still smoke cigarettes, so that didn't work. They still buy sugar, coffee, ect.. Control. That is the omly thing fueling this stupid tax. Throw the bums in prison.