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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: Bank Holding Company who wrote (173957)12/28/2008 12:16:36 PM
From: Smiling BobRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
Here's a creative way of repairing two pressing problems
Another sin tax
I'm all for it. Tax the hell out of stuff that drags society down. Don't need Coca Cola and Budweiser and Lays Potato chip trucks clogging up the roads and double parking so fat, drunken slobs can hasten their trip to getting on the Medicaid roles.
Besides, seltzer mixed with 100% juice makes a much tastier and healthier soft drink
While they're at it, tax those landscapers stalling traffic for 1/2 a mile behind them dragging leaf blowers at 15 MPH in those beat up pick up trucks because Americans got too damned lazy to pick up a rake.

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(NY) Governor Paterson proposes 'Obesity Tax,' a tax on non-diet sodas
NY Daily News ^ | December 15, 2008 | GLENN BLAIN and KENNETH LOVETT

Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 12:52:33 PM by presidio9

A can of Coke could soon cost New Yorkers more than just calories.

Gov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, will propose an "obesity tax" of about 15% on nondiet drinks.

This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 - even as the same size bottle of its calorie-rich alter ego would go for $1.15.

on said Sunday.
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