This fight has been gearing up for awhile because the pro-sugar people were running ads about this 3 years ago on New Mexico TV with pleas not to take away the children’s juice boxes and their cokes.
What they fail to talk about however, is how very prevalent diabetes is in New Mexico. Native Americans are very prone to develop diabetes and I know it’s a big problem in the Hispanic population too.
And everything in the article that was said about public education in New Mexico was an understatement - it really needs all the help it can get. New Mexico is poor and the schools are poor. The dropout rate is high.
So since regulation and legislation are balancing acts, it seems to me on balance that it’s a reasonable tax.
Nice pic. Bible Spice? Caribou Barbie? Snowmachine Sarah? Wasilla Hillbilla? Whore of Babble On?
Oh, right: Saccharine Sarah, you betcha, doncha know, also.
On a related note:
Fuck You, Sid McCrashcup!
It’s not an involuntary tic, it’s a feature.™