Unwise Taxes

[talon]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6275T720100308

Taxing sodas and pizza won't cause weight loss because those aren't the primary reasons people are obese. It's not like drunkenness, which can be related back to one thing: alcohol; or drug addictions that can be traced back to illegal drugs and presciption medication abuse, or all the outcry over cigarettes.

Overweight comes from a variety of factors and soda and pizzas are the least of it. Taxing them is either a method to micromanage people's lives and profit from it or it's a political showboating with a profit motive for policitians. I suppose they have to fund their exhorbitant salaries somehow and this is just the latest in "let's tax Americans to death while we control every aspect of their lives."

I'm considering opening an soda saloon and underground pizza parlor. The ingredients for these foods don't have a surcharge tacked on - yet. Soda and pizza are both insanely easy to make, too. The ingredients are common and used in so many healthy dishes that politicians would face food riots if they tried to tax them all.

Flour, yeast, water, tomatoes, cheese, veggies, herbs, fruit, salt, sugar or honey or agave nectar or some other sweetener to feed the yeast. Yep. With those 13 sets of ingredients I can make tons of different kinds of pizzas and sodas.

What could I name such an establishment?

So many choices...Pursuit of Happiness Pizza Parlor, Prohibition Soda Saloon, Independence Pizza, The Freedom Parlor...

Of course, if I did it, y'all have to deal with my experimentation - Cream of Celery Soda, Beef Tartare Soda, Shrimp Scampi Soda, Hot Dog Soda, Jambalaya Soda, and more. And that's just the sodas.