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Opinion: Tax Bad Choices, Not Necessities
By Michael Medved - AOL News(July 12) -- With government at every level desperately seeking more revenue to cope with soaring deficits, citizens should evaluate all tax proposals according to two crucial principles: It's better to tax choices than necessities, and bad choices deserve taxation more than good choices. For one thing, these distinctions will help resolve raging debates over efforts to impose new costs on sugary soda, bottled water, candy, tanning salons and other indulgences. Of course, tea party supporters and other conservatives are right to resist all governmental attempts to spend more money, and to ...
Tax Sugary Drinks? New Yorkers Say 'No' but Leave Some Wiggle Room
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe idea of imposing taxes on sugary drinks has popped up in several cities and states as a way to counter unhealthy habits -- and raise money for revenue-strapped governments. That has people (and businesses) up in arms in many of these places. By one measure, opposition runs high in New York state. A Quinnipiac University poll, conducted April 6, said voters oppose such a proposal by Gov. David Paterson 66 percent to 31 percent. Paterson's proposal calls for a penny-an-ounce tax that the state Budget Office said would raise $1 billion a year and reduce soda consumption by 15 ...
Middle-Aged Women Drinking to Excess, British Study Finds
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyA new study in Britain has found that middle-aged women are drinking more than they did in their teens. As alcohol takes a rising toll on both health and health care in the United Kingdom, the British government struggles with what -- if anything -- it should do about this problem. A joint survey by the British Liver Trust and Prima magazine has found that more than 1 in 3 women over 35 drinks more than they did in their teens. And 1 in 5 women over 35 admits to regularly binge drinking. In and of itself, this isn't really news. As I reported back in December on the heels of an earlier ...
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