Americans Against Food Taxes TV Ad
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIwwrO2JYg&feature=player_embedded
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The end of the ad said that it was sponsored by Americans Against Food Taxes, so I decided to see who funds that organization. According to SourceWatch, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_Against_Food_Taxes :
"Americans Against Food Taxes is a coalition funded by the beverage industry which consists of major restaurant chains, food and soft drink manufacturers and their associated lobbying groups. It was organized by the American Beverage Association to fight a proposed three to ten cent tax on soda, sugary drinks and energy drinks to help fund health care reform in the United States ... its extensive membership consists mainly of lobbying groups for packaged food and soda companies, chain restaurant corporations and the world's large food and soft drink manufacturers and distributors, including the Coca-Cola Company, Dr. Pepper-Royal Crown Bottling Co., PepsiCo, Canada Dry Bottling Co. of New York, the Can Manufacturers Institute, 7-Eleven Convenience Stores, and Yum! Brands."
I believe that is refered to as astroturf (fake grassroot campaigns)...
Why do we let corporations have a voice in our democratic process?!
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cmdinc
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lmao with curtis. good one. Hey tbow, your first mistake is watching the arogant ass himself, still live with my mother, gay but is to homophobic to admit it .Olblurman. Second can you defend Obama's multiple statemnets " i will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year. What only people 250k plus buy soda????
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cmdinc
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tbowman131
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cmdinc:
1) i love your avatar
2) making personal attacks about olbermann has nothing to do with the programming of his show. why do conservatives always attack the messenger and not the message?
3) I don't see him as breaking his pledge because this tax is only incurred by a persons choice. if they don't want to pay the tax, they don't have to buy soda, they can choose water (which is healthier and cheaper).
I feel this tax is necessary to incentivise people to make healthier choices when it comes to their beverage choice.
- 2 years ago
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tbowman131
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cmdinc
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cmdinc:
1) thanks i think it's great.
2) your right, but it's fun
3) I'm not buying your reasoning, it is a tax and people under the monetary value preceding drink itwho is the government or you to give incentives to make healthier choices? It's called "freedom" my friend
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cmdinc
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curtisreed
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the number one reason for obesity is lack of exercise.
perhaps what the benevolet government should do is sign everyone up for mandatory military service to make everyone get into shape.
you libs should support that, it's pro-health.
or, here you go:
Every year every citizen is REQUIRED to go to the doctor, stand on a scale, and the doctor will be forced to record your weight (with a notary public present to document the truth of it), insert your weight, height and age into a calculator, come up with a mathematical result that gives your obesity factor, and this of course must be transmitted to the IRS.The IRS then multplies this by a factor (to be determined by our government), and the result is how much you ahve to pay in additional Fat Taxes.
Let's keep going with the idea.
Every single citizen--scratch that--SUBJECT of the government shall be required to provide random urine tests for drugs. If you are negative, you don't pay any additional taxes. If you are positive, you must pay an additional $2000 per year.
Like it?
But wait, there's MORE!
since obesity is caused by lack of exercise, and video games are a contributing factor, let's put a 500% tax on X-Box and all other video games.
so, Libs, see how stupid your taxes look when you just extend the illogic a little further?
- 2 years ago
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curtisreed
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tbowman131
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curtisreed:
if you could subtract the sarcasm and just give your perspective on why a tax on sugary beverages is contrary to your worldview, i'd appreciate it.
there have been many recent studies linking the chemical known as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and the obesity epidemic. claiming that lack of exercise is the main driver shows a lack of understanding of how massive amounts of sugar (and sugar replacements like HFCS, HMCS, Sucralose, etc) in your diet will trick your brain into wanting more food and can actually change your body chemistry to make weight loss nearly impossible.
if you accept that as fact, how can you argue against a 3-10 cent tax on the primary way most americans ingest those sugars/chemicals?
the only person who looks stupid by your extension of the liberal "logic" is yourself. you can use the hyperbolic slippery slope arguement to destroy almost any well-intentioned, rational legislation.
where is the connection between taxing soda and forced military service and taxing video games? there is a massive leap in logic that simply does not exist.
- 2 years ago
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tbowman131
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unclecharlie
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I'm getting dang tired of gubmint wanting to tax the hell out of us so it can pay for some pretty questionable projects. Just another tax - we're being taxed to death!Thanx, Obama!
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unclecharlie
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pjacobs51
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Astroturf for sure, they learned from the tobacco companies. Some are even owned by the tobacco companies.
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pjacobs51
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kennymotown
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I've seen these ad's and they are working hard against a fat tax. To bad it might be the only way some of these fat people will get medical help. The industries that have been fattening Americans up for decades should help with their down the road health care.
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kennymotown
