Ever Heard a Liberal Pitch a Scheme That Didn’t End With These Words?

Posted by Harvey on July 25, 2012 at 8:06 pm

Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) wants to fix nasty ol’ broken capitalism with a soda tax (emphasis mine):

“But I will tell you that if you’re paying $3.49 for juice and 79 cents for soda, if you are in a low-income family and you have to stretch the dollar, you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you what you’re going to buy,” DeLauro said. “You’re going to go for the 79 cents.
“And maybe, quite frankly,” she said, “one of the things that we ought to look at and one of the things we ought to consider is a soda tax.
“Maybe we ought to look at that amongst several other areas that we are looking at in terms of nutrition,” she said.
“Look, the point is: This is a critical, critical issue,” DeLauro said. “We need to work together.”

“Yes, it’s a horrible idea, but if you oppose it, you must hate teamwork.”

Sorry, Rosalitums, doing a bad thing together with other people doesn’t make you good, it makes you an accessory.

Oh, and did you notice her psychotic swing from fretting over the plight of poor people who have to stretch their dollars to buy a 79 cent soda, to threatening them with a tax if they don’t start ponying up the $3.49 for juice?

Yup, best way to show compassion for the poor – slowly and deliberately thumping the business end of a baseball bat into your open palm while making “suggestions” about “lifestyle improvements.”

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