Hiding behind a woman's skirts.

The post below is despicable because it represents greedy corporate giants disguised as a supermarket-shopping housewife. How cowardly! Americans Against Food Taxes! Bullshit. It's billionaires against smaller windfalls. As their spokesperson this "housewife" is busily sashayed through the grocery aisles grabbing a bottle of sugar water and spreading lies. Her suggestion that the government is going to tell you how to run your life is absurd. What's not absurd is the government taxing wildly over-priced products that will give America's children diabetes, heart conditions, and any number of other maladies while making them uhappily and unhealthily obese. I also notice that she only mentioned liquids as the items among the "lot of groceries I buy." I think parents who don't pay attention to what they're feeding their children need a wake up call. If they won't read the label, they might get a hint from the price tag: "This product has no nutritional value and, in fact, sucks." Of course Kraft and Pepsi and Nabisco and all those other empty-calorie giants are nervous. They've been getting a free ride for years addicting children to sugar, chocolate, salt, mystery chemicals, friendly names and adorable bottles. The government isn't telling shoppers how to run their homes, but they are telling manufacturers to start doing the right thing or pay higher taxes. Will those taxes be passed on to consumers? Of course. But hopefully that will make them stop buying the products that weren't good for them in the first place. Americans Against Food Taxes. Give me a break!

Note: On a related topic I think one of the greediest American companies is good old Kellogg's from Battle Creek, Michigan. It is absolutely obscene how much they charge and have charged for decades for a box of grain and air. I encourage everyone to buy the generic brand, which is still overpriced, but not as much as Kellogg's.