Chicago is apparently floating the idea of taxing soft drinks to try to discourage people from drinking them. You can read the story here. Why tax it though? If soft drinks really are so bad then why not just ban them? Is it because you want the tax revenue and you are only feigning concern for childhood obesity? Ding ding ding, we have a winner. This crap turns my stomach and makes me want to hurl on the socialist mindset. Much like the tax on cigarettes, if a product is truly horrible ban it. Instead we will create government programs from the tax revenue which will then require people to continue buying the product to support the program. (See example A: SCHIP). In the end, nothing is accomplished other than more taxes levied against hard working Americans. We must stop this type of ludicrous behavior from our politicians in Chicago and elsewhere or before you know it they will even start trying to sell us seats in the Senate.