So, we're supposed to tax soda to pay for Obamacare, but...

Proponents of the tax cite research showing that consuming sugar-sweetened drinks can lead to obesity, diabetes and other ailments. They say the tax would lower consumption, reduce health problems and save medical costs. At least a dozen states already have some type of taxes on sugary beverages, said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

"Soda is clearly one of the most harmful products in the food supply, and it's something government should discourage the consumption of," Mr. Jacobson said.

But if the tax will be paying for all the Skittles-shitting free unicorns, and the government is, at the same time, justifying using the tax as a way to discourage consumption of the very product that is raising these revenues, how does that make any goddamn sense?

Oh, that's right. Because they'll just find something else to tax using the exact same idiotic circular logic when this scheme fails. And so on.

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