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Junk food tax is the gateway

November 29, 2012 @ 3:38 pm (Updated: 2:42 pm - 11/30/12 )

Talk about indigestion. Dori's burning up inside over talk Thursday from a former Obama administration official of his idea to regulate and tax junk food.

Dori coughed up his Cheerios when Larry Summers, former chair of the White House National Economic Council, touted the idea in an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

"I think there is no question that the way Americans eat and what Americans weigh is a big contributor to health problems and it's a big contributor to health costs," he said.

There are no formal White House proposals as of yet. But if you believe Summers, it's just a matter of time.

"I think at some point you're going to see tax measures and regulatory measures that are going to be directed at helping people be healthier. That's just going to happen and I think it's probably a good thing when it does."

"If a sin tax gets us to stop smoking and drinking, and a food tax gets us to stop eating, then guess what an income tax does?" Dori says. Talk about a gateway.

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  • dori monson fan wrote...
    good to see the marlborobama administration
    November 29, 2012 4:10 pm
    is looking after our health.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    Looking after our health
    November 29, 2012 9:55 pm
    As an excuse to levy taxes.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    'According to Dori'....
    November 30, 2012 7:39 am
    According to Dori anything he doesn't like is 'a gateway to ______'. any tax on something is a gateway to more taxes, more regulations, more 'government intrusion'. etc. etc. Why let facts get in the way of good rhetoric, eh Dori?
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  • Bataar wrote...
    It is a gateway . . .
    November 30, 2012 7:45 am
    How can you imply that a tax on something is not a gateway to more taxes, regulations, government intrustion, etc etc. It clearly is.
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  • Str8Thinking wrote...
    Do we really want the government defining junk food?
    November 30, 2012 9:34 am
    Ultimately no matter what party writes the tax they will have food lobby "helping" decide what is junk food. There will be a huge government branch need to define what is and isn't junk food and the food producers will work to make sure their food is "classified" as healthy while the competition is not.
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  • HLC wrote...
    This is all about the first lady.
    November 30, 2012 9:57 am
    I would hope she would dump about 50 pounds before they tax the rest of us for junk food. Clean up your own house first.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Obama hates wall street and loves the little guy... Ya, sure, you betcha...
    November 30, 2012 4:56 pm
    That's why he hires an ex goldman sachs ceo (Larry Summers) who lobbied for the graham-leach-biley act that deregulated banks which led to the housing bubble that collapsed and subsequent bailouts of the criminals.

    No prosecutions yet for Obama's puppet masters, not one. And you liberals believe his rhetoric... bwaahahahaha. Fools!

    Junk food tax...

    Bring it! I don't eat junk food so I don't care. Eating junk food is a vile habit that affects peoples health. No one should eat that stuff. People that do should be made to stay at least 25 feet from any entrance so we don't have to smell their obese preservative stuffed bodies. Put up the posters of cellulite thighs everywhere to warn people of the dangers. Get the surgeon generals labels on that stuff.

    This is only the beginning. Government health care opens up a Pandora's box of behaviors ready to be punished by taxation. There is no limit. I told you so. :-P

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