{"id":410529,"date":"2010-03-10T04:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/stimulus-bill-s-hidden-attack-what-we-eat-drink-smoke-40609\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T04:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:08:54","slug":"the-stimulus-bill%c2%92s-hidden-attack-on-what-we-eat-drink-and-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/410529","title":{"rendered":"The Stimulus Bill\u0092s Hidden Attack on What We Eat, Drink, and Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.09.10 05:06 PM<\/p>\n<p>by Phil Kerpen<\/p>\n<p>One of the more extreme proposals floated early in the national health care debate was the idea of taxing soda and other sugary beverages. That trial balloon was almost immediately shot down by the American public, but the Obama administration is attempting to achieve, by subterfuge, soda taxes and a lot of other ways to micromanage our lives in the name of public health\u0097whether or not ObamaCare passes. The mechanism is buried in last year\u0092s $862-billion-and-counting stimulus bill, and works by diverting hundreds of millions of dollars that should be promoting economic growth to instead pay lobbyists to push for higher taxes and nanny-state controls over our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/pkerpen\/2010\/03\/09\/the-stimulus-bills-hidden-attack-on-what-we-eat-drink-and-smoke\/\" >BigGovernment.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/kerpen.hipcast.com\/deluge\/cc3bb596-ed8a-9278-c8ee-d2d4b653d05b.mp3\" >related 2-minute KerpenCast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/030910-stimulus-bill%E2%80%99s-hidden-attack-what-we-eat-drink-and-smoke\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;rink-and-smoke<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.09.10 05:06 PM by Phil Kerpen One of the more extreme proposals floated early in the national health care debate was the idea of taxing soda and other sugary beverages. That trial balloon was almost immediately shot down by the American public, but the Obama administration is attempting to achieve, by subterfuge, soda taxes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}