In their never ending crusade to force good health, socialized medicine and control over us from cradle to grave, Democrats in general and Liberals specifically, will tax us to death to keep us alive in their Utopian Society.
Soda Tax Weighed to Pay for Health Care
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is set to hear proposals from about a dozen experts about how to pay for the comprehensive health-care overhaul that President Barack Obama wants to enact this year. Early estimates put the cost of the plan at around $1.2 trillion. The administration has so far only earmarked funds for about half of that amount.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based watchdog group that pressures food companies to make healthier products, plans to propose a federal excise tax on soda, certain fruit drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and ready-to-drink teas. It would not include most diet beverages. Excise taxes are levied on goods and manufacturers typically pass them on to consumers.
Senior staff members for some Democratic senators at the center of the effort to craft health-care legislation are weighing the idea behind closed doors, Senate aides said.
As Congress dines on the sweet pork of corruption, they will tax sweets to fund programs to force us to stop having sweets. And the beauty of big government is that they will parade "experts" in health and wellness from the public sector of government bureaucrats, government unions, educational unions and private sector "experts dependent on government money to testify just how dangerous sweets are to society.
Thus begins the Obama National Socialism movement, a movement that will make poor people poorer, children go without that which the movement deems unnecessary and make the better society the movement demands whether this society wants it or not.
