Fat Tax propsed by NY

Hydrokat: Merry Christmas to you but I am your twin sister from different Mothers. I was fine in the 40's till around 48 then downhill. The worst came one year after I moved where I am now, believe the colder air did me in but such is life in paradise. Don;t have a wheelchair yet but when i get one, you are on for a race. peace.

Hey Desert cat. You and I must be twin Brothers from different Mothers, hahaha. Same with Me. Thyroid, Arthritis,blown out carteledge in the knees, Diabetes the latest thing. I surfed for 30 yrs, backpacked,worked Construction up until late 40's, "A fucking Animal" okay. You Young guys better pick up the pace. We didn't have videos or games to play with. Shit starts goin downhill pretty quick after 40. Fuck Fat Haters! I can still whip Your asses in a wheelchair okay! Don't Fuck with this old Man....Merry Christmas! Fm Hydrokat...

all my life I watched what I ate, exercised either walked or rode my bike to whereever I wanted to go. A few years ago my thyroid went out of wack, causing me to gain enough weight to be a buick. The doctor said to cut down on my food intake and exercise even thought she qualified me for handicap due to arthritis. So after months of arguing with the doctors living only on salads I decided I am heading towards my sixties and the hell with the doctors and society, I am fat and plan on getting fatter. No more will I give up croutons in my salad or crackers with my soup.

Governor Paterson will probably be looking for a new Job after this.

If you think smokers are crazy, take away someone's chocolate bar and you will see real crazy people.

Reminds me of the "sin" taxes on tobacco and alcohol.

Love this idea.

Taxes... well if its for medical resonse then im all for it, but i pretty sure that just about all are tax money gose to the head people of IRS and the millatary. War is the greed and hatred of evil people, shows u how much of are world is good.

this is not the answer to the problem there are no more sweets now then when i was young way back in the 80's the problem is more of a life style change we got lazy in my opinion,a real answer would be to educate people on the true problem and show that a healthy way of life includes good habits and exercise.

How stupid can you get. Our forefathers had a revolution for a whole lot less than the garbage some of these stupid polititians are dishing out. If I'm not over weight, costing you anything for health care and am a productive member of society leave me alone. Get your hand out of my pocket and keep it out. For you dumbies that think its a good idea when you file your taxes donate it to charity, but don't ask me to pay any more than I already am. I pay ALL my taxes, and enough is enough.

i think its a pretty good idea.

I'm all for this on a federal level. We need better nutrition orientated classes in our schools (I was required to take a one semester 'health' class, during which the teacher took frequent smoke breaks) and a more stringent P.E. requirement (sorry, marching band is not real exercise).

America needs to take advantage of it's assumed leadership position and show the world what it takes to be fit and healthy. Already obesity has spread to Central America and Europe, and it needs to be stopped.

THE MAN MAYBE BLIND BUT HE A VISION.

How far off is the breathing tax.

Do you have a permit to consume the air sir?

Your papers please!

Pareo Nullus

These are good tools to make the changes we need to have happen. With new regulations and hopefully new corporate law, we can hold corporations responsible for their actions. Over the last 50 years corporations have gained more rights than a citizen, wake up people. If you or me caused the death of a person we would go to jail, what happens to a corporation that puts a product on the market that kills lets say a dozen people. They get sued, big deal what kind of justice is that. In early America that corporation would be forced to dissolve, and old corporate law had sunset time for all corporation's of 20 years for a corporation to live, then they were required to dissolve. Corporations are not a living entity so why do they have more rights then you and me, this is the ridiculous path our nation has gone down. Did you know that our foreign debt is 700 billion dollars a year, of that foreign debt 40% is trade
within the same international company's. Off shoring our manufacturing base is good for only the corporations doing the business not for our citizens.
Tax the hell out these corporations and drop their tax loop holes or we will suffer more.

I'm saying this is crap, it seems like a tax for tax' sake and where will all the tax money go that is made from this? The ingredients they replace sugar with in 'diet' options are just as bad, if not worse for you than the sugar itself. Instead of proposing complete waste of time taxes why not find away to get kids fitter and healthier without taxing people, which we all know is only going to make the American Government a small some of money. I will bet money that if this goes ahead it will reduce consumption by about 10 percent of what they say, if that.

At the federal level we should stop subsidizing corn. Corn is true source of all our obesity. Corn is in almost all processed foods, even in the soda facing a proposed tax. High Fructose Corn Syrup is a poison that should be banned.

This is a very creative way to make money and help this nation full of overweight idiots. Im all for it.

why are diet drinks exempt?

I couldn't agree with you more cantuc! In my past years, I worked a job as a cashier at a grocery store, and it was unbelievable the things some customers were allowed to purchase with food stamps or any other aid. I saw hard-working individuals trying to get milk and rice and to see people use my tax dollars just so they can stock up on soda and sugary cereals was mind-boggling.

It's nice to see this possibly take effect in NY but I hope I can do more to do something similar here in TX. We have Houston and San Antonio, two cities that have cracked the top ten in "Fattest Cities" over the past 5 years. Even cracked the top five! It's time to do something now.

Paying taxes is patriotic. I am all for it.

There should be a sweetness level rating system that disqualifies products from the market first of all The FDA is not doing a good job of regulating the food market they Suck!. Any overly sweetened drinks or anything that contains high fructose damn corn syrup should be banned! and Obese people should be Taxed and fined for being Obese! On the grounds that they are a health risk to themselves!!!!!!!!! I'm laughing, but I'm serious people. Putting a tax on the development of sweet drinks wont solve a thing, people work so that they can spend, and they will continue buying unhealthy foods, just ban the unhealthy food from the market, Dam its very simple!!!

I think this is a fabulous idea and should continue on into many other areas of foods that use refined sugar.

While they're at it...there should be many products banned from purchase with food stamps as well. Make only healthy options available.