# Soda "pop" tax **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 1, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300 "2009-01-01T00:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The1SloR\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/the1slor_t/32/5984_2.png) [@The1SloR\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The1SloR_T)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/1 "2009-01-01T00:57:54Z")
seriously WTF!!! I dont drink pop anymore but this is a fucking joke! [ame=“[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMgjdbY93o](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMgjdbY93o)”]YouTube - SODA vs MILK[/ame] Im movin to mexico, the government is getting out of control with all these laws and shit their trying to pass ---
**Author:** ![wrayzor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wrayzor/32/6021_2.png) [@wrayzor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/wrayzor)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/2 "2009-01-01T03:03:34Z")
times are tough, economy is having a tough time and sometimes you might have to do things that seem a bit extreme. Does anyone really need pop, No. God forbid people would have to do without some of the luxuries we have, your bitching already and nothing has even been passed. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/3 "2009-01-01T04:49:28Z")
What about the hormones in the milk? Tax non-organic milk. (sarcasm) Might as well monitor video game usage and tax that too. ---
**Author:** ![steelcitysix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/steelcitysix/32/5992_2.png) [@steelcitysix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/steelcitysix)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/4 "2009-01-01T10:57:45Z")
basically i should have invested in pepsi in the 80s…you fat bastards ---
**Author:** ![TwoFortySX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/twofortysx/32/6014_2.png) [@TwoFortySX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TwoFortySX)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/5 "2009-01-01T11:36:36Z")
> [@FS: 2001 and 1998 Subaru Legacy Sedans](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2001-and-1998-subaru-legacy-sedans/39143/13): > > What about the hormones in the milk? Tax non-organic milk. (sarcasm) I did a research paper on bovine milk. Its pretty amazing the hormones that are found in a percentage of milk. The main one is IGF-1 which helps the cows produce more milk. The bovine IGF-1 is identical to the human version which is commonly used as a steroid. People are using anabolic steroids without even knowing although the amounts are small which means you would have to drown yourself in milk daily to see any results. Its just the fact that it is found in the milk and there is no way to filter it out. I guess that’s what will happen when you introduce business strategies to agriculture. I still love me a nice glass of milk though:) ---
**Author:** ![Sight\_N\_Sound](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sight_n_sound/32/5950_2.png) [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/6 "2009-01-01T12:06:06Z")
so the dairy lobbyists in New York are pissed their sales are down, and they greased this “doctors” pockets and politicians to come up with a way to make milk more attractive. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/7 "2009-01-01T12:25:04Z")
Pop isn’t the problem. It’s the parents giving fast food 5 times a week, Stuck inside watching dora the explorer and Playing video games. People are afraid to let their kids play at a park, 300ft down the road because of pedophiles and getting dirty. Worse of all getting scrapped knees :eek: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Blackbelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackbelt/32/5998_2.png) [@Blackbelt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blackbelt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/8 "2009-01-01T14:08:54Z")
Hahahaha…what a bunch of shit. Using the tax code for social engineering is never a good idea, but there are plenty of idiots who will go along with the crap that ‘doctor’ is spewing. “the government will use the revenue collected for health care”. Yea right, just like they were going to use all the money they extorted from the tobacco companies(IE smokers)from the 1998 state tobacco settlement for smoking prevention programs. All that ended up being was a back door tax increase funded by smokers. As soon as that passed, the tobacco companies raised the price to compensate, so who really paid the settlement? The tobacco companies. or the smokers? ---
**Author:** ![jph102900](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jph102900/32/6049_2.png) [@jph102900](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jph102900)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/9 "2009-01-01T14:13:07Z")
> [@Will It Blend v. Guitar Hero 3](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/will-it-blend-v-guitar-hero-3/39260/3): > > I did a research paper on bovine milk. Its pretty amazing the hormones that are found in a percentage of milk. The main one is IGF-1 which helps the cows produce more milk. The bovine IGF-1 is identical to the human version which is commonly used as a steroid. People are using anabolic steroids without even knowing although the amounts are small which means you would have to drown yourself in milk daily to see any results. Its just the fact that it is found in the milk and there is no way to filter it out. I guess that’s what will happen when you introduce business strategies to agriculture. > > I still love me a nice glass of milk though:) This is why my wife and I buy organic milk. It started with organic milk and now we get organic meats also. That’s pretty much the extent of it though, we don’t get too much into the organic fruits and veggies (with the exception of the local stuff we buy in the summer). ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/10 "2009-01-02T08:46:49Z")
> [@Old skate Board](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-skate-board/39216/10): > > so the dairy lobbyists in New York are pissed their sales are down, and they greased this “doctors” pockets and politicians to come up with a way to make milk more attractive. > > :rolleyes: 🤣 BIG MILK IS OUT TO GET US!! 🤣 > [@Anyone into paintball?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-into-paintball/38842/85): > > Pop isn’t the problem. > > It’s the parents giving fast food 5 times a week, Stuck inside watching dora the explorer and Playing video games. People are afraid to let their kids play at a park, 300ft down the road because of pedophiles and getting dirty. Worse of all getting scrapped knees :eek: :rolleyes: actually, pop is a big part of the problem. In the height of my fatassery, I drank nothing but pop. I stopped and started drinking nothing but Gatorade (which is much better, but still has a bunch of HFCS). Dropped 50lbs without changing diet or exercise in any other fashon. Got back to PA here a couple months ago, and the only thing that is ever stocked to drink in the fridge here is Pepsi or Mt. Dew. Gained 15 lbs over the last 2 months. Bought a big thing of water a month ago with some Crystal Light packets and half of it is gone already. ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/11 "2009-01-02T08:48:41Z")
> [@TW: Used 2001 LS1 Block](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-used-2001-ls1-block/39054/16): > > 🤣 BIG MILK IS OUT TO GET US!! 🤣 > > actually, pop is a big part of the problem. In the height of my fatassery, I drank nothing but pop. I stopped and started drinking nothing but Gatorade (which is much better, but still has a bunch of HFCS). Dropped 50lbs without changing diet or exercise in any other fashon. > > Got back to PA here a couple months ago, and the only thing that is ever stocked to drink in the fridge here is Pepsi or Mt. Dew. Gained 15 lbs over the last 2 months. Bought a big thing of water a month ago with some Crystal Light packets and half of it is gone already. so the government should intervine on us all because you have a shitty diet??? ---
**Author:** ![kilmer420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kilmer420](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kilmer420)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/12 "2009-01-02T09:01:09Z")
> [@Anybody gots some OG kill vids that u wanna share?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-gots-some-og-kill-vids-that-u-wanna-share/37052/84): > > so the government should intervine on us all because you have a shitty diet??? Of course, socialized healthcare benefits 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/13 "2009-01-02T10:38:52Z")
uh huh… ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/14 "2009-01-02T11:02:06Z")
> [@Anybody gots some OG kill vids that u wanna share?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-gots-some-og-kill-vids-that-u-wanna-share/37052/84): > > so the government should intervine on us all because you have a shitty diet??? did I say that? 🤣 I’m mildly insulted that you would even suggest that I would support something like that. ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/15 "2009-01-02T11:13:59Z")
> [@The last movie you've seen, and rate it.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-last-movie-youve-seen-and-rate-it/27425/312): > > did I say that? 🤣 > > I’m mildly insulted that you would even suggest that I would support something like that. libertarian to democrat. Who knows what the hell you would support anymore 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_WS6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Silver\_WS6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver_WS6)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/16 "2009-01-02T12:01:46Z")
> [@Anyone into paintball?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-into-paintball/38842/85): > > Pop isn’t the problem. > > It’s the parents giving fast food 5 times a week, Stuck inside watching dora the explorer and Playing video games. People are afraid to let their kids play at a park, 300ft down the road because of pedophiles and getting dirty. Worse of all getting scrapped knees :eek: :rolleyes: i agree with shaggy !!! a lil pop versus mcdonalds every block on the street… when i was a kid i drank pop 2-3 times a day and had fast food 1 time a week if that and i was skinny as a nail. unlike now ! ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/17 "2009-01-02T12:40:29Z")
it’s not pop, it’s not video games, it’s not fast food, etc… It’s people being lazy and parents letting their kids be lazy. I played a lot of nintendo and games on my commodore 64 when I was a kid but still got a ton of exercise. I wasn’t allowed to sit at the tv for 8 hours a day on the weekends. A few kids in my 7 year old’s first grade class are already fat, it’s a damn shame. My kid comes home and tells me how he should be able to play his DS more because the fatty at school is a higher level than he is on mario cart and he needs more time than his 30 minutes a day on it. Well, not exactly in those words, but you get the idea 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/18 "2009-01-02T12:46:35Z")
I hate taxes, and I hate government intervention. This one law in particular might actually have a positive effect. That is yet to be determined, but time will tell. The video only mentioned NYC though. If the sweetened to hell drinks are more expensive, then juices without sugar added will become more available, which is all I drink anyway. I actually can’t stand the taste of sweetened juices anymore. I accidentally grabbed one at a store the other day (grape juice with sugar) and it tasted like a melted popsicle, awful shit. So as much as I hate the government taxing anything, or getting involved at all, they might accidentally make the world a better place with this one. ---
**Author:** ![S10Blazed\_Si](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/s10blazed_si/32/5983_2.png) [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/19 "2009-01-02T12:56:12Z")
This is the same concept as other sin taxes. Pay extra for stuff that is bad for you, right? Cigarettes and alcohol are already taxed so why not add on a few other addictive things? ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300/20 "2009-01-02T14:12:25Z")
> [@Need help: Installing cd player ( DSM GUYS chime in)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-installing-cd-player-dsm-guys-chime-in/39098/2): > > it’s not pop, it’s not video games, it’s not fast food, etc… It’s people being lazy and parents letting their kids be lazy. > > I played a lot of nintendo and games on my commodore 64 when I was a kid but still got a ton of exercise. I wasn’t allowed to sit at the tv for 8 hours a day on the weekends. > > A few kids in my 7 year old’s first grade class are already fat, it’s a damn shame. My kid comes home and tells me how he should be able to play his DS more because the fatty at school is a higher level than he is on mario cart and he needs more time than his 30 minutes a day on it. Well, not exactly in those words, but you get the idea 😃 . your generation made lazyness possible 🤣 [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/soda-pop-tax/201300.md?page=2)