Just Got Back from Boulder, CO

I read that a similar tax in NYC did not come close to generating the revenue they thought it would, and caused a lot of small businesses on the margins of the city to lose business to shops just outside the tax.

But whatevs.

Whenever a food is taxed, the government tells us how bad that food is for us.
Same with cigarettes, don't hear a thing until they want to raise the tax and suddenly smoking is bad.

$22.2 million for healthier kids, my arse!

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but I'm not sure taxation is the way to do it.

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The best way is to actually make people fiscally responsible for their poor decisions, instead of being subsidized by taxpayers or by fellow insurance customers. Insurance companies should have a lot more leeway in pricing for individual habits and factors.

I don't hate many things.
But I hate government with everything in me.

I lived there when they outlawed smoking in private businesses, before outlawing outdoor smoking in public places , before they legalized public marijuana smoking just about everywhere. About the same time a cyclist punched a smoking driver in the face through his open window to demonstrate the danger of second hand smoke. It's Boulder . Thirty square miles surrounded by reality. That's what you get in Boulder. Nannies. Nannies everywhere.

My family property in the TN Valley will be beachfront! frick yeah.

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Insurance companies should have a lot more leeway in pricing for individual habits and factors.

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Ideally, sure. But insurance companies don't seem worthy of this leeway, in my opinion.

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and some good spots for terraced produce gardens.

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