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Taxes To Fight Obesity?

Proposal Would Slap Hefty Fee On Sugar-Filled Drinks

What you see in these comments is the ease social engineers morph into totalitarians. The left uses this base human tendency all of the time. They will find a myriad of reasons you should be able to impose your worldview on someone else. Notice how the food tax evolves into hating the poor because they're stupid, a drag on society, can't figure out how too feed themselves. This leads to eugenics.