It’s no lie the United States Government has been spending money like me when I’m black out drunk at a casino with ATMs that let me overdraw my checking account. We’re finishing up one war while another one has no end in sight. We shelled out 700 billion for the failing banks and financial institutions. Mean while, independent research firms are saying that the stimulus approved earlier this year is going to run up to a total of 3.27 TRILLION! Aside from that, we just threw away 70 some million to put a man made crater in the fucking moon. Even though we have China in a textbook Catch 22 with the amount of debt we continue to build with them, there has come a time when we must look to fund our nation’s absurd spending habit domestically. How? You guessed it! TAXES!

Taxes come in an endless array of forms. Income tax, luxury tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, there’s even a death tax though more commonly known as an “estate tax.” But I digress. As we are in the center of an obesity epidemic, there is growing support to push legislation through to tax unhealthy food. A “fat tax” if you will. So to begin our discussion I would like to start with a video:



Ah. I see your argument off-putting, more than likely single, redhead, mother of two. Pennies ad up, and you need to feed your family! Now that your side of the argument has been stated, allow me to give you my well versed, thoroughly researched, and yet tactful rebuttal:
Shut the fuck up you jagged thunder cunt. Shut your ginger face and go close the trunk of your car you fucking retard. By your logic I should be able to bitch about alcohol tax because I’m dehydrated, or a cigarette tax because I need to breathe. The soda and high sugar/low nutrition juices our government plans on taxing are bad for you. And I'm sure every penny counts from the looks of the well landscaped house you just rolled up to. Google and Wilford Brimley would both agree soda’s bad for you!




So how about instead of complaining about a tax levied on shit you don’t need and that’s bad for you just stop buying it! Spend the money on a recreation center membership, or vegetables, or juices that are actually good for you! Get some water, ice, and sugar and your three quarters of the way towards a pitcher of Coolaide. Don’t think soda’s bad for you? Just take a look at the new Pepsi Logo!



Though I’m not the biggest fan of our government shelling out cash for stupid shit, I’ve been an advocate for years that unhealthy foods need some form of adverse identification. What I had in mind were warning labels of some sort, but a tax is even better! As the country’s waistline has grown almost exponentially the past few decades, the amount of money spent on healthcare for these self induced problems has as well. According to WSJ, in 1998 obesity cost 74 billion dollars!

The problem is this incredibly annoying commercial that attempts to come off as a public service announcement is truly the voice of the majority of America. Everyone’s got their panties twisted that every soda they drink is going towards helping our nation get out of debt (spend more). If you really want to get pissed off at something, go and round up a bunch of fat people and beat on them for skyrocketing the cost of health care. Want lower health policy premiums? Decrease the amount of morbidly obese people siphoning the funds from insurance companies for self perpetuated problems. Besides… (as I already stated earlier, I have a gambling problem) I’m willing to bet that more than 75% of the same people who are flipping their fucking lids to the idea that bad food is going to get taxed voted for Obama. That’s what you get for putting a democrat back in office you uneducated fuck heads. I hope your more expensive soda makes you lose a foot.

~ Jack .45 ~