My friends over at The Line is Here are better at this anti-nanny state bullshit, but they seem to be taking a break lately, so I think I’ll handle this one…
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.
As Zog is my witness, I will NEVER understand these nosy motherfuckers.
Wait, that’s not true, I DO understand them. They’re about as complex as flatworms.
Our Overlords say, and may even actually believe, that they’re doing what’s best for everyone else – and maybe that is actually true for about eleven minutes – but then their tiny little weiners get the hardest they’ve ever been – even harder than that time in the basement with the neighbor kid and Dad’s “art collection” – in the exercising of their authoritay and soon they just can’t stop. The People (that’s you and me, kids) need help! They’re all just the most pwecious snowfwakes EVAR and they just can’t be trusted with all that nasty sugar available to them wherever they go. They must be SAVED!!!
Suck. My. Dick. Would you just?
I would like to say this nanny-state bullshit wouldn’t find a toehold in my beloved country of independent adventurers, but times change, and blood thins. There are more than enough pussies here who LOVE the idea of being coddled by their government to keep these jackholes in business through seven eternities.
Sweartagad, if we could somehow tap into the power generated by the sheer numbers of our ancestors SPINNING IN THEIR FUCKING GRAVES, we could fusion power the planet itself and go cruising around the fucking universe.
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Sweartagad, if we could somehow tap into the power generated by the sheer numbers of our ancestors SPINNING IN THEIR FUCKING GRAVES, we could fusion power the planet itself and go cruising around the fucking universe.
THAT is now my new signature at Gulf Coast Pundit.
rickl
December 17th, 2008
I’m pleased as punch. I’m going to drink diet pop til cancer pops out all over me and then sue the great state of NY for forcing me into chemotherapy. Shew, and I was worried I would actually have to get a job to fund my retirement.
5kidsnadog
December 20th, 2008
I’m surprised that Schwarzenegger didn’t think of this first. Ka-li-forn-ians wouldn’t even blink at this sort of thing (i.e. a new tax and a further restriction of their freedom).
D.W.
December 20th, 2008