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Lynnxz -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 2:26:00 PM)
Lmao..."Hot cow death in the morning" Personally, I wouldn't like the tax, because I don't have a kitchen. Ezmac and ramen and chef Boyardee gets old fast. However, if it goes to help hospitals, I'd approve it- Grady Hospital in Atlanta is going under fast, because of all the people that come in, use the system, and never pay their bills.

Hippiekinkster -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 2:47:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moloch quote: ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster quote: ORIGINAL: RuheMaus I don't like this. mainly as the cheapest food right now is fast food, thus why so many who are poor eat it. So, its ANOTHER tax on those who are poor, if you ask me. And you wonder how the rich stay richer... Why not a tax on fois gras or veal, if we're going for a real 'sin tax'? Cheaper than a kilo of pintos, a bag of rice, some onions, salt, pepper, spices, and so on? I don't think so. But people have to get off their asses and, you know, actually cook it. I havent cooked in years, many people simply dont have the time. Bullshit. In the time it took you to type that, you could have dumped some black beans in a crock pot, poured in some water, and turned it on. Damn near everybody has the time, they choose choose to piss it away in front of the TV or on teh interwebs or babbling on the Handi instead of keeping themselves healthy.

windchymes -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 2:59:16 PM)
They have to keep taxing things. How else will the politicians there keep their corrupt selves in the lifestyles to which they're accustomed?

Aileen1968 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 3:00:29 PM)
I think they should tax Harleys. [8\|]

windchymes -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 3:02:44 PM)
I heard that they used to tax teeth there, but something very strange began to happen..... especially in the central Piney regions.....[8\|]

Aileen1968 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 3:04:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: windchymes I heard that they used to tax teeth there, but something very strange began to happen..... especially in the central Piney regions.....[8\|] Hahahahaha. You have to live in Jersey to get that. edited to add...I think I love you. lol

windchymes -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 3:09:03 PM)
[:)] You'd be amazed how many dating personal ads there include the phrase "still have all my own teeth"....seriously! I actually miss living there, if you don't factor finances into it.

Moloch -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 4:48:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster quote: ORIGINAL: Moloch quote: ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster quote: ORIGINAL: RuheMaus I don't like this. mainly as the cheapest food right now is fast food, thus why so many who are poor eat it. So, its ANOTHER tax on those who are poor, if you ask me. And you wonder how the rich stay richer... Why not a tax on fois gras or veal, if we're going for a real 'sin tax'? Cheaper than a kilo of pintos, a bag of rice, some onions, salt, pepper, spices, and so on? I don't think so. But people have to get off their asses and, you know, actually cook it. I havent cooked in years, many people simply dont have the time. Bullshit. In the time it took you to type that, you could have dumped some black beans in a crock pot, poured in some water, and turned it on. Damn near everybody has the time, they choose choose to piss it away in front of the TV or on teh interwebs or babbling on the Handi instead of keeping themselves healthy. And clean the dishes and the pot....

mstrj69 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 4:58:37 PM)
One can not exist on black beans alone. Whould have had to cook meat and a vegatable and then of course the class of soda. Don't forget the time it takes all of that to thaw unless you are going to the grocery store every day and who can afford that gas bill? I am lucky if I make it once a week. And then there is the clean up of everything else including the glass in which you poured the soda.

mstrj69 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 5:14:32 PM)
Cost of cooking, your own food, can start with the cost of the food itself, add in the cost to go and purchase it at about 50 to 75 cents a mile and then add in the depreciation on the stove, the pots and pans, the grill, the silverware, whatever else you use to prepare it or eat it. add in light bulbs used up quicker due to their needing to be turned on to see to cook. And of course the cost og the utilities to prepare it and the increased cost if you opt to air confition your place in the summer as cooking will increase the amount of electricity to cool it down. Will also burn out the compressor, possibly causing freon to be released into the air. Could continue but I think you get the idea. If you really want a sin tax on the poor and the rich, legalize drugs, tax them at about 500 percent and only allow them to be sold at drug stores or other state sponserred locations. Farmers have another alternative crop that can drive down the cost of foreign competition and definitely make money for themselves and the state. Could even require doctor's prescription that could not be withheld for anything but a really valid cause. Thus they can track who is using and who is not.

Hippiekinkster -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 5:25:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mstrj69 One can not exist on black beans alone. Whould have had to cook meat and a vegatable and then of course the class of soda. Don't forget the time it takes all of that to thaw unless you are going to the grocery store every day and who can afford that gas bill? I am lucky if I make it once a week. And then there is the clean up of everything else including the glass in which you poured the soda. Well, look, dude, I walked 30 miles each way to school in white-outs UPHILL each way. I mean, we all have our crosses to bear.

Leatherist -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 5:29:37 PM)
I ride my bike to the grocery store-costs me a can of w d 40 every two months.

Hippiekinkster -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 5:38:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moloch And clean the dishes and the pot.... Waaaa! Waaaaa! [sm=boohoo.gif][sm=LMAO.gif] Even if you don't have a dishwasher, that takes all of two minutes. I don't understand at all how some of these tough domly dudes make it through life without mommy there to wipe their noses and bottoms. [sm=alien.gif][sm=lame.gif]

kittinSol -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 5:40:01 PM)
[sm=biggrin.gif] I was thinking just the same thing!

cyberdude611 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:01:02 PM)
I dont know why people think fast food is the problem with society becoming obese. Coke has been around since the late 19th century. McDonalds was founded in the 1950s. I mean hot dogs and burgers and soda were something my parents and even grandparents grew up with. Yet the recent obesity crisis is reletively recent phenomenon over the past 10-20 years. And I would say the problem is the loss of physical activity. Video games, the internet, and TV has turned the lifestyles of our recent generations into seditary instead of active. So the calories simply accumulate. And notice how no one even wants to walk after parking their car. They wait until they find the closest parking space. We have drive up windows for everything (banks, pharmacy, food, even the dry cleaners). This is a lazy society. It has nothing to do with the kind of food we eat.

Hippiekinkster -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:07:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol [sm=biggrin.gif] I was thinking just the same thing! Frakkin' pathetic, nicht wahr? [&:] I mean, that's about the same amount of time as most domly types can keep it goin' in the BR without poppin', or even a bit more, n'est-ce pas?

kittinSol -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:35:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cyberdude611 This is a lazy society. It has nothing to do with the kind of food we eat. I think you're correct that physical inertia is largely responsible for obesity. About your above quote, however, note how many posters on this thread have complained that cooking from scratch was too difficult/time consuming/annoying. That's lazyness for you as well: wanting bland, tasteless food at the drop of a hat, food that doesn't even require any chewing.

kittinSol -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:37:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster Frakkin' pathetic, nicht wahr? [&:] I mean, that's about the same amount of time as most domly types can keep it goin' in the BR without poppin', or even a bit more, n'est-ce pas? [:-]

Leatherist -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:40:44 PM)
Takes me all of fifteen minutes to cut up potaoes,carrots and chicken and throw them into a crock pot. I season it after the chicken is cooked. A pot like that will feed me for about three days-costs about fifteen bucks to make.

christine1 -> RE: New Jersey considers tax on fast food (5/1/2008 6:41:15 PM)
kittin, that's why i stick to pork rinds rofl...chew, chew, chew! i don't understand the concept that fast food is cheaper than home cooked. your average fast food combo meal is anywhere from 5-9 bucks...multiply by 3 meals a day for everyone in your household. i've got a hollow legged teenage son who eats 3 times what i do...i couldn't afford to feed us both on fast food. after a while i think i'd be so lethargic and pasty looking (now there's a sexy visual, huh?), that i wouldn't even have the energy to work to pay those fast food taxes.

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