This Bitch and her Dem. Cohorts are frigging stupid and nuts! Rep. DeLauro: Tax Every Teaspoon of Sugar

Cut off every cent this ugly bag has been spending! m/r

Rep. DeLauro: Tax Every Teaspoon of Sugar | CNS News

By Eric Scheiner  8-1-14

(CNSNews.com) -Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced this week the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET Act), which aims to institute a tax of one cent per teaspoon – 4.2 grams - of sugar, high fructose corn syrup or caloric sweetener.

The measure (HB 5279), introduced Wednesday says, “A 20-ounce bottle of soda contains about 16 teaspoons of sugars. Yet, the American Heart Association recommends that Americans consume no more than six to nine teaspoons of sugar per day."

Even though the manufacturers’ of the sweet drinks are targeted to pay the tax, the text of the bill itself notes that the goal is to reduce public consumption through a price increase.

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