Okay … FOOD Is Now A “Sin”?!?
“Food” is now a fuel source for our vehicles … AND a new tax source for our government …
These people stop at nothing to make folks feel guilty about being human.
New Jersey Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food … ‘Sin’ Tax Could Help Fund Struggling Hospitals
WINDSOR, N.J. (CBS) ― The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial “sin” tax on fast food.
Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it’s not settling well with many residents.
“They’re taxing everything. Now you’re gonna tax fast food? That’s crazy,” said Newark resident Miriam Robertson.
Added Livingston resident Tina Abrahamian: “No one wants to be taxed. I mean, it’s a necessity to eat and people need to eat and with everything skyrocketing, that’s the last thing we want to tax.”
The thought of taxing a Big Mac or a Wendy’s burger came up at a New Jersey Hospital Association meeting where Gov. Jon S. Corzine was asked if it could be an option to help fund struggling hospitals. At the meeting, he reportedly called it a “constructive suggestion.”
A spokesperson for the governor, however, told CBS 2 on Wednesday:
“The governor is open to reasonable solutions to help solve our financing problems, but there are no plans for any fast food tax.”
State Sen. Richard Codey has been quoted as saying a tax on fast food “is a tax on the poor.” And plenty of residents agree.
“[It cost] $12.86 for [fries] and this little chicken wrap, and they want to tax that? You’re serious?” asked Newark resident Saladine Fuller. “If they raise it, I’ll stop buying it.”
Still, some say taxing fast food isn’t such a bad idea.
“I think this country has gone too much in the direction of fast and unhealthy food, and if people are taxed they may terminate that and turn toward more healthy foods,” said West Orange resident Maureen Felix.
For now, the fast food tax is just an idea. Detroit lawmakers once toyed with it, but it never passed into law.
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I think I’ll continue my evil ways and go to In-n-Out Burger for lunch……while I can still afford to.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:33 amwell fast food is unhealthy, and folks seem fine with taxing the hell out of booze and cigarettes, however if you ask me, it sounds like a tax on the poor, not intentional of course.
Maybe the fast food crowd can get together with the American Iron Lung Association and Drunk Drivers Against Mothers to finally turn this disenfranchised minority into the largest disenfranchised minority, maybe even a majority…lol
May 1st, 2008 at 8:40 amThis is why taxes on smoking and alcohol are HORRIBLE ideas. Sets a lovely precedent. I’ve been saying this would happen for years. Up Next; Soft Drinks.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am“I think this country has gone too much in the direction of fast and unhealthy food, and if people are taxed they may terminate that and turn toward more healthy foods,” said West Orange resident Maureen Felix. Another elitist libtard pontificatingt from atop the usual pile of bullshit.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:50 amWe can have a new burger - the BOHICA (Bend Over Here It Comes Again) Burger. You folks in Jersey keep getting the Gov’t you voted for - WTF is up w/that?
Booze is booze
Smokes is smokes
WHO gets to decide what food is “junk” enough to be taxed as such?
All the food groups are represented in fast food establishments. Even at DQ.
It’s like someone … like, say, the president of a country … deciding what “sex” is or isn’t … or what the definition of a word is …
Food is food.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:53 amJeepers Creepers what next.. I am sick of being punished for doing well and working hard and being forced to take care of others who WILL NOT care of themselves.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:04 amI hear you, see faith of judas comments, we have set the precedent and now the flood gates are open, it is not enough for something to be legal or illegal, now we have special interest groups slowing crowding out what they think is unhealthy, public smoking bans, sin taxes, bans on trans fats…this is no more surprising or offensive.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:05 amThis is great, isn’t it? The dirty secret is those in the know setting up these little machinations don’t want you to quit smoking or quit drinking. The minute millions do, the state coffers start running dry.
Here’s another little morbid, dirty secret: a large problem with the cost of healthcare isn’t our poor health. It’s that we’re living longer and it is taxing the system. Guaranteed forced euthanasia will one day become a real topic of discussion in the U.S. - probably about the time I become old enough to become their number one candidate.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:53 amI vote for much, much higher taxes on salads, baked chicken, tofu, and diet soft drinks. What’s good for the goose…
May 1st, 2008 at 9:56 amThis is incredible. it truly will tax the poor by default. its just a fact.
i love fast food, although i only eat it about once a week, sometimes less. not too good for you but it tastes damn good.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:11 amBye, bye Miss American Pie…
May 1st, 2008 at 11:03 amI vote for much, much higher taxes on salads, baked chicken, tofu, and diet soft drinks. What’s good for the goose…
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I eat some of those things as a rule (sans tofu, which I believe was alien waste dumped from a UFO holding tank and grew roots here … and I have no use for “soda” diet or not, except for my tonic for hard drinks and the occassional root beer float) …
I’d eat med-rare beef steak every other day if I could afford it …. and I’m told that’s not good for my cholesterol. {fphehhhh!}
Anyhow, my eating habits are my choice.
So IS someone who chooses a Big Mac, or hot wings (YUM!), or pizza, or a Krispy Kreme or fried foods.
I’m just really sick of these sorts of intrusions into our lives … and the taking of “my right to choose” from me.
When I was a kid I used to hear grown-ups complaining “someday somebody will find a way to charge us for air …”
Yeah … “carbon credits” …
Exactly right … 
May 1st, 2008 at 11:31 amI love McDonalds. I only eat it durring the weekends. It’s about the only place open at 3am. lol
But you know, people can now say that getting fat is their contribution to the country. lol
May 1st, 2008 at 11:34 amRob
But you know, people can now say that getting fat is their contribution to the country. lol
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thats a good way to look at it
May 1st, 2008 at 11:50 amI wish we had IN-n-outs in MN. I had some when I was in San Diego for my Brother Grad from MCRD there.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pmdrillanwr,
Well now, wait …
I eat some of those things as a rule (sans tofu, which I believe was alien waste dumped from a UFO holding tank and grew roots here … and I have no use for “soda” diet or not, except for my tonic for hard drinks and the occassional root beer float) …
Had you going, didn’t I? LOL Well, like many of my posts most of that was all fat. If you want my real opinion, and you could probably could care less, I don’t think any food should be taxed period. And that includes fast food at restaurants.
I’ll give you another heads up from the medical community. If you can keep the weight off, get some exercise and that doesn’t have to be on the treadmill either, don’t smoke, and don’t have a sedentary lifestyle, eat what you want and enjoy it. Though high cholesterol can bew a killer, it’s one of a multitude of chance factors. You could eat spinach with no salad dressing 21 times a week and chances are you wouldn’t lower your rating but 10-15%. If you got high cholesterol, blame your genes and eat a cheeseburger is my motto.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pmI saw some dumb social engineering type say that fat chick shouldn’t be on dancing with the stars because she’s “obese”. On the other hand, she is getting alot of exercise. Really, who do these people think they are? It used to be a free country! Free to eat fast food. Free to eat mom’s home cooking. Free to eat tofu. P.S.: In’n'Out is cool, but sometimes their quality control isn’t good–cold fries (yuck). McD’s still makes the best fries, IMHO.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pmso it’s ok for the government to tax things you don’t like, or at least sort of look down upon, IE smoking, or drinking, but NOT ok for them to tax things you DO like, even though someone else does?
How about it’s wildly illegal and immoral for the US Government to be TAXING INDIVIDUAL products. is the USG just a giatn elected parental body? Punishing us stupid children and “subtly” trying to steer us in the right direction by taxing unhealthy products? What business does the government have concerning itself with MY diet? MY choice of poison? It’s none of anyone else’s business.
What happens when they start taxing the shit out of independent journalists? Will anyone care then?
This shit should have been stopped decades ago. This proposed tax on fast food will probably fail. But its only a matter of time before it’s implemented, or a soft drink one is.
Freedom doesn’t mean its ok to let the government walk all over people’s rights so long as it’s not stuff you don’t personally value.
remember the saying
“I don’t like what you have to say, but I’ll die for your right to say it.”
Liberals AND Conservatives have totally forgotten that. It’s maddening.
For the record, I don’t smoke, drink, eat (much) fast food, or use drugs. But I damn well vote for freedom of choice every fucking time. Because yeah I hate all those things, especially alcohol, drunks irritate the hell out of me. But it’s not my fucking business what anyone else does so long as they aren’t actively harming someone else.
Fuck me running, this pissed me off.
Grow up America. We’re supposed to be a free country.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:36 pmLOL Well, like many of my posts most of that was all fat. If you want my real opinion, and you could probably could care less …
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Don’t ANY of YUNZ on here EVER think I could care less about your opinions.
If I didn’t care I wouldn’t spend my time with you all
May 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pmTurns out, especially with tobacco taxes, we smokers are subsidizing health care for you health freaks. Health costs are heavily “end loaded”; most of your lifetime health costs are in the last few years of “heroic measures” to keep you going, however vegetable-like you become.
We smokers have the decency to die young and fast if we are affected by tobacco (some aren’t, due to lucky gene combos), and cost much less.
My suggested solution: the HAL test. If you can’t recite two verses of “Bicycle Built for Two”, we pull the plug.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm