Think tank ideas for taxes.

[Windy in Kansas]

One think tank idea for raising new taxes is to add a 6½% tax to sugary drinks.

I occasionally soda buy from a 50¢ vending machine. Now just how will that machine collect 3+ cents on each sale? Needless to say if that does go into affect the cost of soda from that vending machine will go up disproportionately. 60¢ or 75¢ would be my guess, which means I'll stop buying from it even though I do so rarely as it is.

[beowoulf90]

The best idea is to cut spending and waste..

But the politicians will never do that! They are legal thieves and rule over their thiefdoms..

[Win07_351]

But yet we keep voting them in.

[Txrider]

The last thing we need is to set up yet another taxing bureaucracy/authority and start taxing new items.

We need to cut all the spending we can, and we need to simplify and reform existing tax infrastructure and policy and raise the taxes we pay using existing taxing infrastructure not some shell game that requires yet another government office to implement.

We have had much higher tax rates, we have had lower spending on social and military budgets, and a pragmatic common sense solution would be to do equally both of those to find a compromise solution.

Then we need to get tough on the unfair trade we have with other nations and get the price of imported goods up to where it should be where domestically produced goods can compete.

[watcher]

We do not have a tax income problem, we have a government spending problem. The more money you give them the more they will spend. I'll give you an example.

Look at every state which started a lottery with the lottery money "going to the schools". What happened? Well as the schools got more money from the lottery the government took money out of the school budget and spent it else where. There was no money saved, no taxes lowered just more money for the government to spend.

[Callieslamb]

Originally Posted by Windy in Kansas

One think tank idea for raising new taxes is to add a 6½% tax to sugary drinks.

I occasionally soda buy from a 50¢ vending machine. Now just how will that machine collect 3+ cents on each sale? Needless to say if that does go into affect the cost of soda from that vending machine will go up disproportionately. 60¢ or 75¢ would be my guess, which means I'll stop buying from it even though I do so rarely as it is.

they'll raise the price of the soda to 94 cents and add 6 cents tax.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by Win07_351

But yet we keep voting them in.

Speak for yourself, I'm not the one voting for them. Most of my votes seem to be wasted by voting only for those that will lose.

[whiskeylivewire]

I think there should be a "politician" tax. For every politician elected to government, they are taxed an amount. Honestly, they are more detrimental to my health than junk food!

[SteveD(TX)]

Speaking of sodas (we call them all cokes here), I remember when the coke or dr. pepper machines all charged 6 cents for the whole thing, and a penny of that was the deposit.

Fifty cents is cheap. My wife has a Coca-Cola machine at her business supplied by Coca-Cola. They will furnish it for free if she buys all of the products from them (nothing but Coca-Cola products of course). Her cost is about 52 cents per can. She charges 75 cents so there isn't much profit there. She supplements it by occassionally buying the products on sale at stores. It's simply too expensive to buy a machine because they seem to be notorious for breaking down a lot.

The idea for a sugar tax is OK by me since I seldom drink canned drinks from machines. And go ahead and make cigarettes 10 bucks a pack.

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by SteveD(TX)

Fifty cents is cheap.

That is the only reason I buy from it, otherwise I would do without and usually do anyway.
The machine is out of town so I don't use it often.

Walked the grandson home from his school bus drop off site and we detoured via the machine and then split a Pepsi after we arrived home. He thought that was great. Keeps telling his mom that he wishes grandpa would move in with them. Guess he has me pegged.

When I was a kid my two brothers and I would infrequently get to divide a 12 ounce Pepsi. Sometimes mom would join us and we'd divide two of them.

If it weren't for advertising and promotions pop could be tremendously cheaper. Why can Big K soda be sold for 25¢ per can from a vending machine sitting right beside Coke and Pepsi machines while theirs sells for 60¢. Kick backs to schools, cities, etc. via scoreboards, stadium and arena funding, etc. is the answer. I'll take the 25¢ kind which tastes almost identical.

[Win07_351]

I get nervous when I see people advocating for more taxation. It sends the message that they're ok with big government and wasteful spending.

[beowoulf90]

Originally Posted by Win07_351

I get nervous when I see people advocating for more taxation. It sends the message that they're ok with big government and wasteful spending.

Exactly!

For example why do we the taxpayers of PA have to pay for a Spector Library or a Murtha Community center. In the last round of budgets Gov Rendell gave 10 million to each of the above..

If there are so many fans of these corrupt politicians then why don't they pay for it themselves.. Wasteful spending at it's worse..

We already have a budget with 36% is spent on Social programs (AKA welfare), 36% is spent on education, and the rest (28%) is spent on everything else, ie police, roads etc..

Such waste and fraud!

[ninny]

I heard that some organization, don't remember who, may have been that Nat'l Debt Comm., has called for a National Sales tax of 6.5% on everything.
Yep, that oughta make everyone feel really good about our Gov.

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[melissa78]

Vermont's Attorney General has just called for a 1 cent per ounce tax on soda, sports/energy drinks, and flavored waters. Juice and water would not be taxed. This is being called an effort to combat obesity.

First of all, who is the Attorney General to "call" for a tax on anything?

Secondly, any idiot who can read a nutritional information label knows that juice has the same (or MORE) sugar and calories as any of the above, except for water, of course.

If it were just me, I would have moved outta here years ago.