Taxes never made anyone healthy, but "juice drinks" do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zmDwMNaTzA
Have you seen this ridiculous ad against taxing soda and "juice drinks"?
If you waste time watching cable news as much as I do, certainly you've seen this ad sponsored by Americans Against Food Taxes, which I'm forced to assume is a broad coalition of average Americans standing up and organizing in a grassroots way against food taxes. Come on, the name says it all! See... look at all the "financially strapped families" in the coalition members list... you know, among all the giant soda bottlers and fast food chains. They're in there, trust me.
An average American citizen by the name of "NoBevandFoodTax" was even nice enough to put this commercial on YouTube. I can't wait until NoBevandFoodTax posts more videos... I'm dying to see videos of NoBevandFoodTax's adorable cat being mischievous.
I planned to leave a comment on this video to thank NoBevandFoodTax for posting it, but I was surprised to see that I couldn't! Apparently after four newcomers to YouTube posted wildly supportive comments to the video (and this video alone, because they believe so strongly in the message), and someone praised them for doing so by saying "This is a very serious issue. I'm glad to see that some people felt so strongly about this that they created YouTube accounts for the sole purpose of posting their thoughts on this video." -- comments were disabled! Obviously the grassroots movement against food and beverage taxes already had enough comments from its supporters.
This commercial makes so much sense, too... to think, we might have pay slightly more to feed our families the high fructose corn syrup found in soda, "juice drinks" (Sunny D, anyone?), and flavored milks (yay NesQuik!).
So, seriously. The problem is that this proposed tax is going to make it slightly more expensive to pour sugar down my family's throat? And that money will go to health care? And I might actually make better food choices if drinks without HFCS were slightly cheaper by comparison? I don't understand! Why is this perfect family who is out camping so opposed to a generally sound tax policy idea? Maybe it's because "taxes never made anyone healthy." Certainly no "tax revenue" has gone to any "programs" like "Medicare" or "the VA" or anything like that.
I honestly don't get it, but count me in, because I have to be part of the "in" crowd. And I can tell by the positive responses on YouTube and Twitter, there's a real movement going on here. Look at these YouTube comments! "mommycab," who I can totally tell is a mom thanks to her screen name, says "The LAST thing" she needs is more taxes! Ha, and look at this delightful comment from MrMcBilly, who I can tell is a "totally cool" young male age 18-35 based on his wacky screen name! "Don't tax me, bro!" -- ha! A wonderful quote from recent similarly-staged tax protests that this "cool dude" totally would have seen because I'm sure he watches as much cable news as I do. I feel a need to conform!
