{"id":1196,"date":"2009-10-08T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T14:06:51","slug":"stupidly-scapegoating-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1196\/stupidly-scapegoating-soda\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidly Scapegoating Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of regular soft drinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSTRE52T61520090330\" target=\"_blank\">have declined<\/a> by almost 10% during the past decade according to <em>Beverage Digest<\/em>, but since when are facts an impediment to Barack Obama&#8217;s smug foolishness?<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/article\/obama-open-to-sin-tax-on-soda\/662412\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Men&#8217;s Health Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Obama conveniently scapegoats soft drinks, saying that a soda tax is &#8220;an idea that we should be exploring.&#8221;\u00a0 He added, incorrectly, that &#8220;there&#8217;s no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. And every study that&#8217;s been done about obesity shows that there is as high a correlation between increased soda consumption and obesity as just about anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except that there&#8217;s not.\u00a0 In a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703298004574455464120581696.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">devastating commentary<\/a> today, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent notes that sales of regular soda have actually <em>declined<\/em>, as has consumption of added sugar as a percentage of daily calories, even as obesity rates increased.\u00a0 He shows that America&#8217;s increasing obesity is actually attributable to declines in exercise, as well as to increased fat and flour\/cereal consumption.\u00a0 Facts, however, are small hurdles for Obama in his campaign to dictate every aspect of our lives and tax us in every conceivable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of regular soft drinks have declined by almost 10% during the past decade according to Beverage Digest, but since when are facts an impediment to Barack Obama&#8217;s smug foolishness? In a recent interview with Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, Obama conveniently scapegoats soft drinks, saying that a soda tax is &#8220;an idea that we should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,256,71],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-soda-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}