Cheaper soda helps poor, creates jobs, lawmaker says

[otohara]

:wtf: :puke: :spank:

DENVER – Soft drinks, under a House Republican plan, would get back the tax exemption they lost last year.

Much of the debate about House Bill 1162, by Rep. David Balmer, R-Centennial, revolved around the state’s finances, not the bulging waistlines of the population that some health experts blame on soft drinks.

The House Finance Committee passed the bill Wednesday on a party-line, 7-5 vote. It now goes to the House Appropriations Committee.

Democrats suspended the sales-tax exemption for candy and pop last year, and Balmer argued that the move illegally took taxpayers’ money.
http://durangoherald.com/article/20110225/NEWS01/702259917/-1/s/Cheaper-soda-helps-poor-creates-jobs-lawmaker-says

[handmade34]

1. Rep. Balmer

must be in cahoots with the ABA... big money for the Beverage Association... Coke made $25 billion last year... better jobs can be manufactured

[PA Democrat]

2. He needs to spend some time in some of the mobile dental clinics

that treat the poor in Appalachia. He also needs to google "Mountain Dew Mouth."

[exboyfil]

3. This year I decided to forego sodas

I was spending upwards to $4/day ($3 at work and $1 at home) for it. While many may not like it, I have switched to plain instant tea saving at least $3.50/day and not getting a bunch of aspartame which seems to fuel my appetite.

Beyond whether it is taxed or not - should food stamps be allowed to be used to purchase soda.

[otohara]

5. Besides Saving Money

you're saving your bones from deterioration, thus osteoporosis.

I don't think food stamps should be used to buy soda - soda is not food.

[old mark]

4. K&R- So he is concerned that "the poor"not be cheated of their access to

refined sugar, corn syrup, caffiene and phosphoric acid...I think that is in the constitution, isn't it?

Fucking republicans lie about everything-it is amazing they have that much imagination!


mark

[exboyfil]

7. Join the other debate

where I am criticized for saying that food stamps should not be used to purchase sodas and Skittles. That would more seriously crimp the soda lobbies style more than a tax.

Kind of Jekyll/Hide around here.

If we got a sin tax of cigs and alcohol, we should also have a sin tax on sodas or at least the state sales tax.

[Historic NY]

6. If it creates so many jobs how come Coke Armonk NY keeps laying off employees....

with every dip in consumption.

[slampoet]

8. I mostly quit daily consumption of soda pop in 1989.

at two sodas a day at a price of a dollar per soda the math goes like this.....


$2 per day x 365 days x 22 years = I saved $256,960


Do you have a counter argument? congressman???