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Yahoo!With state and federal revenues sharply declining, various sales taxes are being considered, among them, things we guzzle.
Nationally, a new gasoline tax is possibly in our future, to maintain roads and bridges.
In California, new taxes on beer and other alcoholic drinks may help to fill state coffers.
New York is considering a host of new taxes to help boost its plunging revenues. Along with actual luxuries, like expensive cars, other potentially taxable items are less luxurious, though still “non-essential”: movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars, downloadable music, cable and satellite TV services, and massages (massages?). Apparently the soda tax is the most controversial. How could it not be when New Yorkers drink an average of 11 cans of soda per week?
Chances are our health, as a nation, would be improved by using less of the things we guzzle, other than water that is. Besides personal health matters (soda is seen as a major cause of the increase in diabetes and obesity), manufacturing, transporting, and using less of them would result in clear environmental benefits—fewer resources used, fewer emissions generated. However, business may suffer ...
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