Children of the Pepsi

I heard on the radio this morning that someone is trying to pass a tax on soda to help eliminate childhood obesity. What the hell? Whatever happened to a parent raising a child? They want to put a tax on soda just because some parents can’t control their children. Why is this a good idea? It hasn’t worked with Cigarettes, they keep raising the tax and price on them, but people are still smoking away. I know someone who is paying $4.50 a day to smoke 20 cigarettes. That’s $1,620.00 a year that people are willing to spend on something that is killing them… so do we think the tax is working?

And this is worse then the cigarette tax. This is taxing everyone who goes to a fast food place, stops at a coke machine or wants something to cut his rum. If you want to keep your child from drinking sodas… tell them ‘no’. I’m not a parent, why should I have to pay extra money to keep someone else’s kid from getting fat. The old saying about it taking a village to raise a child… well every village has an idiot and we need to stop them from breeding. If I have to take responsibility for my neighbor’s children, I should at least get to bang his wife a couple times.