Democrats Target Soda Pop for Latest Sin Tax

The reality of a state choking in over-taxation is just one of the many reasons why it is important to help bring back our system of checks and balances in California.

Now that Democrats have redrawn legislative districts in a way designed to strengthen their party’s majority statewide, Californians will need to brace themselves for the flood of new taxation which will inevitability be perpetrated upon them.

A prime example of such taxation is working its way through the legislature right now in the form of senate bill 1520 courtesy of State Senator Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento. Sen. Ortiz’s legislation will add a tax to soda pop to the tune of about $350 million per year.

Why is this tax necessary? According to Sen. Ortiz, it is necessary to fund a government program to educate children that soda pop is not nutritious and can cause childhood obesity.

First of all, I don’t buy the obesity theory. My Grandmother spent sixty years of her life practically hooked to an intravenous drip of Coca-Cola. Never did a day go by that she didn’t ingest at least three six packs of Coke, and her weight never broke one hundred pounds.

Secondly, when I was growing up we didn’t have a government program to tell us that soda was not nutritious. That was our parent’s job.

What has changed? Do today’s parents not know that soda is not part of the basic food groups? Does our government really need to assume the role of nanny for our children? I hope not.

Where does this end? Should we tax the television networks for creating juvenile couch potatoes? How about taxing cheeseburgers or other high calorie and high cholesterol foods.

I, for one, am not ready to hand over my responsibility as a parent to the government and I certainly am not willing to pay for others to have that option either.

How do we regain control of personal responsibility? Vote Republican.