Ramblings of Bob: Tax on soda and juice drinks

Don't you love the commercials about the proposed tax on sodas and juice drinks, that are drinks that contain very little actual fruit or vegetable juice, thus labeled a drink rather than fruit or vegetable juice. Oh my, how can I live without my Pepsi and Dr. Pepper? I'm addicted to it, I must have it, and I can't shell out another penny or two to get my fix... Doctor, please give me a note that I need my soda to stay alive, it's part of the major food pyramid of life sustaining food, NOT.

Here they are in a grocery store and a kid want to rent a DVD but NO not enough money so what are they buying, carbonated soft drinks, that have absolutely no nutritional value at all. What about some milk and real fruit or vegetable juice? If the family can afford to waste limited funds on soda, then they have enough to pay an extra 1 or 2 Pennies more for that soda.

How about the one with the family coming home from grocery shopping with bags of soda and hardly any real food and complaining it is already hard and expensive to feed a family and a couple of penny's added to the bill would break the bank and harm the family's nutrition.

In many states, they have to pay up to 5 cents deposit just for the plastic bottle, come on, get real. I'm not that dumb...

We tax the hell out of beer, why not soda? Beer has more nutritional value than soda. I don't see the sale of beer declining because of the high taxes added to the price. If the tax was equal to soda, beer would be as cheep as soda or even less.

I need to make a commercial of a family complaining about the high taxed added to the cost of beer and how it is harming the families nutrition. "It is hard to feed my family now with the high cost of beer. Call your legislature and congress and complain about this outrage. Ask them to eliminate the tax so your husband and kids can drink beer on the family's limited budget."