http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=750267

The plan will come with a host of revenue raisers — increased taxes on hospitals and insurance policies, for instance — and at least one new assessment, a so-called obesity tax on non-diet soda to raise $404 million. The governor also is contemplating requiring new license plates to raise cash, reviving sales tax on clothing purchases, removing the tax cap on gasoline and threatening to require Indian retailers to collect taxes on sales to non-Indians by signing into law a bill passed earlier this year by the Legislature.


But .................. Diet soda, besides being bad for you ,makes it more likely that you will gain weight.

In 2005, Sharon Fowler and her colleagues from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio presented eight years of research data that explored the link between obesity risk and soft drinks.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

• 26% for up to 1/2 can each day
• 30.4% for 1/2 to one can each day
• 32.8% for 1 to 2 cans each day
• 47.2% for more than 2 cans each day.

For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

• 36.5% for up to 1/2 can each day
• 37.5% for 1/2 to one can each day
• 54.5% for 1 to 2 cans each day
• 57.1% for more than 2 cans each day.

For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41%.


Me..... I think I'll stick with beer .

ZoeMarie

yeah, and how are they going to know how much you weigh? are they going to put a scale at the entrance of these restaurants?

edit: not only that, but people can eat just as much garbage at home. what's the point?

N0help4u

yeah that is what I figure they will have to do have a scale at the entrance. They also want to fine parents that take an obese child to fast food restaurants.
They are also trying to make doggie bags illegal.

Just think you can afford to buy MORE food eating at home than the cost of a restaurant.

NeedKarma

Who? Post a link!

N0help4u

I heard people calling radio stations saying that Children's Services is getting parents in trouble when they see a fat kid in a fast food restaurant. Here is an article about it happening in England.

Pajamas Media » Parents of Obese Children Charged with Abuse in Britain

This is banning overweight people in Mississippi but they always start a test program on a proposed bill in one area FIRST
Proposal to Ban Obese People From Restaurants

tomder55

In NY there is a place where the restaurant adds a surcharge if you don't finish what's in your plate .

ZoeMarie

and what does that tell people? continue to eat if you're not hungry anymore. genius. lol

NeedKarma

NOHelp,
That first link is about child protection services in the UK and the second link refers to a bill that won't go anywhere for sure. No where is it mentioned that "they" want to make doggie bags illegal. Where do yuo get this info????

But a state with 67% of the residents being obese or overweight needs to do something. Maybe teaching them about personal responsibility would help.

NeedKarma

speechlesstx

Do they have kosher pork now, Elliot?

twinkiedooter

You forgot to mention that diet soda literally rots your brain. A friend of mine a few years ago drank upwards of 8 diet Cokes during her work day. She would line up the empty cans of Diet Coke like they were empty beer cans. Hilarious. What was not so funny was the fact that for a woman in her 50's she was worse than absent minded. She was downright stupid and could barely do her job without asking everybody else at the company what they thought she could do. (true story).

I think the Gov has had wayyyy toooo many Diet sodas as his brain has rotted away completely.