Propaganda is effective.

15 Responses to Propaganda is effective.

1. Contempt says:

   January 15, 2015 at 06:01

   yo sugar ain’t nothing but taxed from the seed to the table and back.
   How the hell is taxing something going to make anything better?
   • KG says:

     January 15, 2015 at 06:05

     It rarely – if ever does, Contempt, and all of us here know that.
     But it gives governments more revenue, part of which goes to organisations full of do-gooders and rent-seekers which lobby governments, using our money to tax and harass and criminalise us further.
     Bastards.
     • Contempt says:

       January 15, 2015 at 09:06

       Which defines a yankee: One who tells you what to do but will not do it himself. AND will use your money to do it.
2. KG says:

   January 15, 2015 at 06:12

   Now excuse me while I go have my fifth coffee (with three spoons of sugar in each) and fifth cigarette since 0330.
3. Ronbo says:

   January 15, 2015 at 07:40

   While Rome burns, Nero fiddles…nothing new under the sun.
4. mawm says:

   January 15, 2015 at 08:25

   The Admiral and I don’t particularly like sugar and eat full fat everything and as much as we like. Both of us are slender. Most “low fat” products have sugar added to make them palatable and this is now being blamed for the obesity epidemic by some.

   There is a lot of research coming out that sugar causes an inflammatory reaction in the wall of the blood vessels which then leads to the development of atherosclerotic plaques which are what causes heart attacks and strokes. Years of blaming cholesterol for it has now fallen in disfavour.

   Like anything we do or eat it should always be a personal informed choice.
   • KG says:

     January 15, 2015 at 08:28

     My feeling is that the best way to go is to eat what we like, in variety and moderation, Mawm.
     Coffee, however……
     • mawm says:

       January 15, 2015 at 08:35

       Of course. We are omnivores.

       This might help understand the science behind it all…….
       http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xw2IpjIcjG8/VLY70WJnVwI/AAAAAAACy-k/cZ4Ky6Enyh4/s1600/Toon%2BJ14.jpg
       • KG says:

         January 15, 2015 at 08:37

         
5. GW says:

   January 15, 2015 at 08:55

   Taxes are supposed to do one thing, raise public funds. I’d love to know who, back in antiquity, dreamt up using them as a tool for punishing unwanted behavior. I hope he’s occupying a special place in hell. It inevitably criminalizes the otherwise lawabiding. And taken to extremes, it ends up doing things like causing the American Revolution.
6. Gregoryno6 says:

   January 15, 2015 at 21:47

   A third-and-a-bit of the Kiwi citizenry answered Yes to the idea of extra taxes on sugary drinks. They’d be the first to howl too when their can of Coke suddenly cost a dollar more than it did last week.
   “Oh yes, I said tax them higher – but I didn’t think you meant the drinks I buy!”
7. Ronbo says:

   January 16, 2015 at 01:50

   “My feeling is that the best way to go is to eat what we like, in variety and moderation, Mawm.”

   Aristotle said something pretty much along the same lines several hundred years before Jesus was born, KG.

   “All things in moderation.”
   • Cadwallader says:

     January 16, 2015 at 07:29

     All things in moderation….except visiting here!
8. Cadwallader says:

   January 16, 2015 at 07:29

   Don’t start me on gluten intolerance! Those who claim it as an ongoing fact are deluded. It seems we can all reject gluten from time to time and our responses vary accordingly. Yet; a few nutters have created an industry around this apparent delusion. Remind you of climate change?
   • KG says:

     January 16, 2015 at 08:49

     A 15 billion dollars a year industry, Cad. And Gecko saw “gluten free” petfood in the supermarket a week or two ago!