Comments on: How to Balance NY Budget? Increase Spending and Raise Taxes! http://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/ Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Lonely Conservative Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:18:29 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=2401#comment-3831 Sheldon, I think Upstate needs to secede from NY. This is getting out of hand. Sheldon, I think Upstate needs to secede from NY. This is getting out of hand.

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]]> By: Today’s Blogs: December 16, 2008http://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3786 Today’s Blogs: December 16, 2008 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:03:37 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=2401#comment-3786 [...] But this doesn’t even get to the core issue at hand, which is why are non-diet soft drinks bad? They aren’t bad in themselves. I assume that one consequence of non-diet soft drinks (obesity) is what he is claiming to be concerned with. But if obesity is what he’s concerned with, then he needs to show the relationship between soft drinks and obesity and then the negative costs imposed on society from that soda-induced obesity. He doesn’t have such evidence. Again, he’s just looking for a money in any way he can get it. Furthermore, why stop at soda? Why not tax ice cream? Or better yet, why not have people weigh-in every year at a DMV and have their weights recorded? Then we can levy a true tax on obesity. Michael Jacobson would be so proud. Read the full post here… [...] [...] But this doesn’t even get to the core issue at hand, which is why are non-diet soft drinks bad? They aren’t bad in themselves. I assume that one consequence of non-diet soft drinks (obesity) is what he is claiming to be concerned with. But if obesity is what he’s concerned with, then he needs to show the relationship between soft drinks and obesity and then the negative costs imposed on society from that soda-induced obesity. He doesn’t have such evidence. Again, he’s just looking for a money in any way he can get it. Furthermore, why stop at soda? Why not tax ice cream? Or better yet, why not have people weigh-in every year at a DMV and have their weights recorded? Then we can levy a true tax on obesity. Michael Jacobson would be so proud. Read the full post here… [...]

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]]> By: sheldonhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3782 sheldon Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:51:28 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=2401#comment-3782 I wonder how long before Americans will have to fight to get their country back. I wonder how long before Americans will have to fight to get their country back.

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]]> By: Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3777 Lonely Conservative Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:41:22 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=2401#comment-3777 Maggie - Yep! Welcome to NY. I have to move. Maggie – Yep! Welcome to NY. I have to move.

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]]> By: Maggie Thorntonhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2008/12/how-to-balance-ny-budget-increase-spending-and-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-3775 Maggie Thornton Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:03:27 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=2401#comment-3775 Wasn't it Guiliani that hugely cut welfare spending - and was lauded for it? So, he'll raise taxes on non-diet drinks, because the obese drink only non-diet, but he will give them additional welfare and healthcare benefits??? Wasn’t it Guiliani that hugely cut welfare spending – and was lauded for it? So, he’ll raise taxes on non-diet drinks, because the obese drink only non-diet, but he will give them additional welfare and healthcare benefits???

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