Tax on Skiing in NY

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This is just ridiculous. Lift tickets are already so expensive. Not that skiing wasn't already a rich person's sport but now it's becoming ridiculous. I mean 12% on 70 dollars! Oy gotten himmel!!
 
Hurray!

but I think they should tax all sweetened soft drinks with both sugar and aspartame...they provide no health benefits and probably should not be consumed as much as they are. We already pay a lot of taxes on alcoholic beverages in NY.

If it's only 10 cents per can/bottle, it will hardly effect the industry or our pocket books, if we really want them. I think it is an ideal way to collect extra money...maybe they can improve the ski areas with that money...or at least the roads to get there.
 
Admin":p3d9t3ej said:
Taxes should never be used as a means to modify behavior.
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While I qualified it with that in mind...I think that taxing sugary drinks is a good way to raise funds. Sugary drinks don't serve any needs, like say gasoline does.
 
Sharon":2lfjzfy8 said:
Admin":2lfjzfy8 said:
Taxes should never be used as a means to modify behavior.
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While I qualified it with that in mind...I think that taxing sugary drinks is a good way to raise funds. Sugary drinks don't serve any needs, like say gasoline does.
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Gasoline tax is a user tax, designed to fund roads, road maintenance and other services that a driver uses that cannot be paid for any legitimate way other than by government. The more a person drives the more they consume road construction and road maintenance needs, thus the more they pay in gasoline tax. Taxing sweetened drinks serves no such purpose, other than to make those who don't drink sweetened beverages feel superior.
 
Patrick":33ks7awq said:
Admin":33ks7awq said:
Taxes should never be used as a means to modify behavior.
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Saying anything to get cheaper cigarettes and booze. :stir:
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Patrick cuts to the chase.

Taxing sweetened drinks serves no such purpose, other than to make those who don't drink sweetened beverages feel superior.
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Bollox. People who drink sugary beverages get fat and ill, thereby adding to the financial burden of the healthcare system, which is eventually bailed out by the public, i.e. me.

That's why people who smoke should have a completely separate selection of insurance carriers, so that there's a Berlin Wall between them and me.

It's all about me, actually.
 
jamesdeluxe":2x0mtl00 said:
It's all about me, actually.
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Now there's something new. :roll:

Shrimp are extremely high in cholesterol. High levels of cholesterol lead to coronary heart disease. Increased frequency of heart disease leads to higher medical costs and life insurance premiums. I presume, therefore, that you advocate a special consumption tax on shrimp, that you advocate putting it into a special dedicated fund to address only increased medical costs and life insurance premiums (not to close a budget deficit in a state's coffers) and that you absolutely refuse to eat shrimp, right?

If not, you're a hypocrite. The concept of a "Twinkie tax" can be taken to any hyperbole you want, but they never make sense. Taxes should never be used to modify behavior, for there's someone on the opposite side of every behavior imaginable. Once you cross that line there's no turning back, to the point that virtually everything gets taxed to death.
 
Sugar tax is a luxury tax...not a tax on behavior.

There are plenty of alternatives to sugary soft drinks...i.e. juices and water.
 
So, if I choose a can of Coke over apple juice I'm enjoying a luxury? That's your argument for taxing Coke? :lol: You don't expect anyone to take you seriously, do you? You can't possibly even believe yourself.
 
If you live in NY, especially NYC, you pay more taxes than many. However, you get a whole lot in return. I look at taxes as the price of admission for living in a nice place. As my grandmother always says, you're lucky you are paying taxes in America. (Sorry Patrick, I would gladly pay taxes in Canada too. Just understand, my grandmother is an old school jew who thinks the world is out to get her.)

Frankly, if you want to tax coke, whatever... I think it's a bit silly, but meh, I don't drink that much anyhow. However, I think taxing cigarettes is good. Not merely because it is bad for the smoker, but it is bad for the person who gets stuck standing next to the smoker. I used to smoke and felt that anti-smoking laws were infringement on my personal liberty. However, now that I don't smoke, and realize that second hand smoke is ridiculously obnoxious and literally infringing on my personal space.

Taxing skiing... thats where I draw the line!
 
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