Not quite. Like most asinine ideas, it was adopted a few months ago by the Philadelphia area moonbats, who always make a strong case that they can jump on harebrained idea faster than anyone else.

Oops – I didn’t mean to suggest that Chicago was first in the nation to start the war on bottled water, just that Chicago was now waging their own war on bottled water. My bad. I should have written my headline a little better.

I anticipate Charlotte, NC to join Philly and Chicago on this at some point.

The war on bottled water begins in Chicago

Not quite. Like most asinine ideas, it was adopted a few months ago by the Philadelphia area moonbats, who always make a strong case that they can jump on harebrained idea faster than anyone else.

The war on bottled war begins in Chicago

I assume that’s a typo?

The latest is that the state has given all sorts of preferential treatment and tax bennies to companies that bottle spring water here and ship it out of state (which is related to the bottled water post above). Great, the state has a looming water crisis and we are paying companies to take the water out of state and profit by doing so.

Gotta love Florida politicians, they can be bought for the price of a season pass to Mauswitz.

I imagine the law will be invalidated by the courts.

As for me, New York City tap water is less filling, AND it tastes great. And there’s a deposit tax only on carbonated products–not still water or fruit juices in plastic containers.

These are the same people who made Chicago smoke free, when all of the smokers started hanging out at the bars and resturants in the suburb, and businesses started to fold, what did they do?? They petitioned the Illinois State Legislature to make the whole state Smoke Free, for the children don’t cha know, and now all the smokers are going to go to the border states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky to eat and drink. In Illinois 75 percent of the population lives within an hour of another state, none of which are smoke free states.

Yep some real geniuses up there in Chicago. Any wonder they run budget shortfalls?? It is their own asnine policies that are killing funding of thier budget. – Lorica

Face it, the rich are already bearing more than their fair share of taxes, and there’s not much left to squeeze out of them. The only readily available sources of taxation is the hapless middle class.

And of course here we have another favorite Democratic stance, imposing taxes “for the common good,” as Hillary was careless enough to say once. If you’re not going to make the correct decisions on your own, your betters in government will take your money under threat of force and make you do whatever it is they consider the right things. And it won’t help if you do them without the confiscatory and punitive taxes, because they’ll tax you anyway for something else, or just because they can.

Tax money is like cocaine for Dems.

At the federal level democrat politicians promise to tax the rich in order to help the middle class and poor.

At the local level democrat politicians tax the hell out of the middle class and poor by constantly raising taxes on fuel, tobacco, alcohol and then generate even more income through “the people’s vices” such as lotteries and casinos gambling.

Democrat Proverb: The big type giveth and the small print taketh away.