Enid News Editorial
July 29, 2009
Are you ready to start paying a slew of new “fat” taxes for certain foods or drinks you consume that some think tank somewhere considers a poor health choice?
Get ready, because that’s exactly what many lawmakers and advocates of health care reform have in mind to help pay for the massive [...]

For Immediate Release
July 23, 2009                                                                                                     
Contact:  Lizette Jenness Olmos
(202) 833-6130 ext. 16
Lulac Fully Supports Hardworking Americans
Opposes all efforts federally and on the state level to impose taxes on food and/or non-alcoholic beverages
Washington, DC – The League of United Latin American Citizens passed the resolution opposing taxes on food and non-alcoholic beverages last Saturday at the [...]

The Hill
July 11, 2009
By Jordy Yager
Republicans and tax groups are pushing back hard against the Democratic plan to fund a trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul bill by taxing wealthy Americans.
The opposition comes in response to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) announcement on Friday that the House next week will propose raising taxes on couples [...]

NEW COALITION SAYS NO TO REGRESSIVE AND DISCRIMINATORY BEVERAGE AND FOOD TAXES
Health care reform is the right thing to do, but singling out consumer products for taxation is wrong approach to complex problem – especially in this economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans Against Food Taxes, a new coalition of concerned individuals, working families, and small and [...]

Capitol Briefing Blog – Washington Post
July 10, 2009
By Shailagh Murray
Here’s one idea Congress is considering to pay for health-care reform: a tax on sugary beverages, like soda.
And why not? A federal excise tax in the range of 3 cents per 12 ounces on beverages sweetened with sugar, high-fructose corn syrup or other sweeteners might discourage [...]

Politico
July 10, 2009
By Chris Frates
Democrats on the influential House Ways and Means Committee seemed to be moving toward a funding plan for health care reform that would cut Medicare and Medicaid spending by roughly $500 billion to $600 billion and levy a surtax on the wealthy — even as the bill’s introduction was put off [...]

Independent Mail Editorial
Sunday, July 5, 2009
 

We received an e-mail last week that we initially took with a grain of salt, but apparently its author isn’t kidding around. He essentially said that any plan to increase taxes on sugar-heavy soft drinks would be unfair to people (like him) who consume in moderation. Instead, he proposed, [...]

San Jose Mercury News
June 24, 2009
By William F. Shughart II
History, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt once remarked, does in fact repeat itself.
Not long after taking office as the nation’s first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton persuaded Congress to enact a selective excise tax on whiskey. He believed that the consumption of distilled spirits, “carried on to an [...]

The Exponent (West Lafayette, Ind.) Editorial
June 17, 2009
The United States’ taxing history begins with tea and, now with their most recent attempt, it might include another popular beverage: Soda.
The Senate Finance Committee is looking to pass a federal excise tax on soda and other drinks sweetened with sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners.
Although we [...]

Times Record News
June 7, 2009
Even most smokers know the habit is bad.
People who take a nip now and then understand too much alcohol can lead to serious problems. That’s why even when it chafes a little, most American’s don’t complain too loudly about federal “sin” taxes on potentially harmful products.
But now members of the powerful [...]

Huffington Post
June 3, 2009
By Susan K. Neely President and CEO of the American Beverage Association
This piece is a response to a Huffington Post Column by Michael Jacobson: “Fizzy Math: Tax Soda to Pay for Health Care and Prevention;” May 29, 2009.
The United States has a daunting task before it: funding health care reform. It is [...]

May 26, 2009
By Kathy Warwick, Special to The Clarion-Ledger
I am anxiously awaiting the first crop of my home-grown tomatoes, and I am sure there are many mouths watering at the thought of this summertime treat.
What if you opened your paper tomorrow and you read a news story that claimed tomatoes were a deadly vegetable? The [...]

AC – Associated Content
May 28, 2009
By Joe Del Casino
The president is now considering a tax on sugary soft drinks (a “soda tax”), ostensibly to improve U.S. healthcare by focusing on “preventive care,” in this case, by mitigating obesity, a leading global healthcare concern. The real motive behind the tax is to partially offset the cost [...]

USA Today
June 4, 2009
By Dick Armey
As Congress and the president look to expand government’s role in health care, taxpayers are left singing the old Waylon Jennings line, “Your thirst for riches is more than my pockets can stand.” But with the Obama administration’s health care plan predicted to cost $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion over [...]