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Poll Opened: June 17, 2009
Poll Closes: June 17, 2012
The Senate Finance Committee is considering raising taxes on alcohol and imposing a new levy on soda and other naturally sweetened drinks, on which there is no federal tax, to help pay for overhauling health care. The committee calls them "lifestyle tax proposals," saying the levies would slow sales of unhealthy products that contribute to rising medical costs. Read the full storyPost a comment
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Posted by ( mscheif ) on June 17, 2009 at 7:41 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
How about we tax everything like movies, movie rentals, card and board games, (we already tax to death cable TV) and everything that Americans would possibly do to amuse themselves during this economic downturn. Even our children won't enjoy a soda. How ignorant is that? Alcohol, we already pay tax so what's new?
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Posted by ( Bullettooth ) on June 17, 2009 at 9:23 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
BS people, you cannot pick & choose what to tax. If you really think that something you enjoy will not be taxed next, you are clueless. We have to stop it before it starts.
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Posted by ( ALLENALBY ) on June 17, 2009 at 11:05 a.m.
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