Should the U.S. Tax Fast Food?

[chris302001]

That would be more of an attack on the poor then your last gem that smoking only affects poor people. It would make people plan ahead and pack lunches before doing shift work with short breaks (which IS an act of lower class people)

I pack a lunch.....does this mean I'll be getting a slice of Obama's pie?

 

[walliwalibus]

Yeap...... must be nice.

 

[javaguru]

That would be more of an attack on the poor then your last gem that smoking only affects poor people. It would make people plan ahead and pack lunches before doing shift work with short breaks (which IS an act of lower class people)

Ummm...paying a flat tax on a pack of smokes, booze or gas does disproportionately tax the poor as a percentage of income while generating a constant amount of money for the government.

I don't know what a pack of smoke costs but for arguments sake let us make it $1,000.00 a year for a "normal" smoker. That is an inelastic cost, you pay 1k a year whether or not you make 25k a year or 10 million a year....

 

[walliwalibus]

I pack a lunch.....

I wish I had a place to go to pack a lunch.

 

[chris302001]

I wish I had a place to go to pack a lunch.

pack a lunch?

or

"pack a lunch"?

ololol I'd pack a certain EF member's lunch.....

 

[walliwalibus]

ololol!

 

[needtogetarmy]

A tax on cigs will not cover his health plan. The Chinese are going to pay for it, by buying US debt. If they decide to buy more.

Even without this health care plan, everyone here can kiss Social Security and all other long-term government benefits goodbye. I don't care though, I can provide for myself. The ones that will be screwed in the end are the middle class. They will not have a pot to piss in a decade.

I like the cap on salaries for companies that used the bailout money too. Tax revenues are going to plummet and skilled US workers are simply going to work for other firms or foreign firms. Obama really has no clue what he is doing.

 

[EnderJE]

Other then a cash grab, I never really understood sin taxes. If you don't want it, then ban it.

 

[javaguru]

A tax on cigs will not cover his health plan. The Chinese are going to pay for it, by buying US debt. If they decide to buy more.

Even without this health care plan, everyone here can kiss Social Security and all other long-term government benefits goodbye. I don't care though, I can provide for myself. The ones that will be screwed in the end are the middle class. They will not have a pot to piss in a decade.

I like the cap on salaries for companies that used the bailout money too. Tax revenues are going to plummet and skilled US workers are simply going to work for other firms or foreign firms. Obama really has no clue what he is doing.

I know, if Obama wants to pay for his new entitlement plan he needs more than a few million new smokers... It's some change...

 

[Razorguns]

Maybe douchebag shouldn't be giving $500million to the smithsonian institute, hollywood producers and green research companies in his "lets get america working" bullshit stimulus.

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