It's especially ludicrous when he talks about his support of cigarette taxes. Just as bad as soda and junk food, just as predominately purchased by the poor, just as disproportionately harmful to the poor due to their lack of proper healthcare.

But somehow cigarettes are bad and junk food is good.

Come the fuck on, Bernie.

"Sad how Democratic Underground allows some folks to insult at large, yet stick up for yourself and they take down posts. Whoever you jurists are maybe you should get together and figure this out. My post sticking up for myself are neither rude nor insulting in any way." Don't dish it out in one breath and play victim in the next.

a lot of people buy and sell cigarettes as singles. My mom always bought a carton at a time, and when I smoked 40 years ago, so did I. But, apparently it is quite common to buy cigarettes on the street from some guy selling them one cigarette at a time. That makes a big difference in cigarette taxes.

As for soda, in some neighborhoods, it's just as deadly to drink the water. Leave them the fuck alone, unless you can guarantee them safe neighborhoods in every sense of the word. Soda is not going to kill them any quicker than anything else in their neighborhood.

And with Hillary, it will just get worse.

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If you don't drink soda, you don't pay the taxes. I drank diet soda for years. Quit when my doctor told me to quit. Saves me lots of money and tea or water is better for your health.

Four comments, and not one actually figured out why Sanders is against this TAX. In Alabama, they've raised the license fee by 50%, they're recently raising tag & title fees to finance more prisons, and they raised taxes in Internet sales earlier, and now they're hinting at toll roads. And we've got an entirely Republican legislature, and governor.

The problem is that THESE ARE REGRESSIVE TAXES!! Why is it poor people chime in, and complain about higher taxes on the rich, but when someone slaps the population with a regressive tax, one that when you divide how much a poorer person pays, by their salary, ends up being an incredibly higher percentage of their income, than a richer person, then people are like "Oh yea, tax me, tax me, I'm stupid, I don't know what's going on--what is math anyway!!"

Tax the rich--you've heard, we've got "income inequity." The rich have so much more, so taxing them actually helps fix not only the direct problem, but helps just a smidgen with the huge problem of inequity in America.

God, I hate coming off sounding condescending, but why can't Americans understand this simple concept--tax the rich at least as much.

it's Sales Taxes, Room Taxes, etc.

Basically, it's 'tourist' taxes that have to be paid by the poor when the tourists leave.

The Rs in this state are on the way to eliminating any reason to live here.
Tax breaks for corps that end up dead and take the money elsewhere.
No prison for the crooks that steal our tax money.
No laws against becoming a senator and sponsoring laws that make you rich.

Bribery used to be illegal, now it's lucrative.