OLD WRINKLES….FOR NEW TAX SCAMS
(…proving that super-nannyism is still alive and well in San Francisco)

We’re always amazed at how inventive career politicos are in coming up with new ways to impose taxation loads on their constituents, especially if these can be tied to erstwhile social engineering agendas they think will make them more palatable. San Francisco’ s Board of Supervisors has always had a penchant for doing that, having achieved a reputation for coming up with quirky if not cockamaimee ones they try to apply.

This time it is attempting to promote getting a tax measure on the ballot for the next elections cycle of 2014, on sugary soda drinks, because these are perceived as the primary cause of epidemic levels of diabetes and obesity among the inhabitants of their fair city. So they tout such a tax proposal as necessary to help reduce consumption of those vile, unhealthy, over- sugared, soda beverages being marketed to them, etc., etc., etc.. The Supervisors are apparently under the impression that their constituents are too sheep-brained to figure that out for themselves, so they have to do it for them instead. As that –Church Lady- might say, such altruistic high-mindedness by public officials is truly special.

Such is their justifications for proposing it, and, if you’ll excuse the expression, to sugarcoat this proposed tax pill they’re using a the tried and true do-good rationale that with all the revenues such a tax will generate, they will then be able to apply them to support more or expanded programs and services for the promotion of health and good nutrition (all those who believe none of those revenues will ever be diverted to other purposes…raise your hands!).

Ah, well, it just goes to show it’s the same old wrinkles for new tax scams….and proving that super-nanny-ism is still alive and well in San Francisco.

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