Looks familiar. I wasn’t treated so violently though.

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NEWARK, N.J. (CBS) - The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial “sin” tax on fast food.

Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it’s not settling well with many residents.

“They’re taxing everything. Now you’re gonna tax fast food? That’s crazy,” said Newark resident Miriam Robertson.

Added Livingston resident Tina Abrahamian: “No one wants to be taxed. I mean, it’s a necessity to eat and people need to eat and with everything skyrocketing, that’s the last thing we want to tax.”

The thought of taxing a Big Mac or a Wendy’s burger came up at a New Jersey Hospital Association meeting where Gov. Jon S. Corzine was asked if it could be an option to help fund struggling hospitals. At the meeting, he reportedly called it a “constructive suggestion.”

A spokesperson for the governor, however, told CBS 2 on Wednesday:

“The governor is open to reasonable solutions to help solve our financing problems, but there are no plans for any fast food tax.”

State Sen. Richard Codey has been quoted as saying a tax on fast food “is a tax on the poor.” And plenty of residents agree.

“[It cost] $12.86 for [fries] and this little chicken wrap, and they want to tax that? You’re serious?” asked Newark resident Saladine Fuller. “If they raise it, I’ll stop buying it.”

Still, some say taxing fast food isn’t such a bad idea.

“I think this country has gone too much in the direction of fast and unhealthy food, and if people are taxed they may terminate that and turn toward more healthy foods,” said West Orange resident Maureen Felix.

For now, the fast food tax is just an idea. Detroit lawmakers once toyed with it, but it never passed into law.

Mental note… Maureen Felix of West Orange is an authoritarian.

This is so very retarded. Fast food is not cheap. It’s just easy. But so is the Qwiki Mart and Starbucks and DD. Will they tax that too? How about a progressive tax on the density of energy. That way we all are incentivized to eat cardboard and celery. They are simply looking for money and since fast food has been demonized its an easy target. If they need money why not they use some of it from their monopoly gambling ring or layoff some of those make work bureaucrats they have? Why not just stop fucking around and let the market decide where the money should flow? If a hospital is failing it should be left to fail. It’s a failed program and needs to be replaced.

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When it comes to keeping our teenagers safe and sober, one New Jersey school district is taking the lead by employing the use of a Breathalyzer test.

And as CBS 2 HD found out, it’s become such a successful deterrent, students are passing with flying colors.

Keeping high school students sober can be, in some situations, a full time job.

“I personally got Breathalyzed,” said student Jessica Forrest.

At Pequannock High School.

Getting checked for alcohol is now the rule at dances and other social events.

“I’m all for it because if your child isn’t doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide,” parent Barbara Fede said.

And it’s people like Barbara Fede we can blame when the police state comes down hard on us all. National ID, road checkpoints, cameras everywhere, gun registration: “if your [not] doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide.”

But not CBS…

I understand that XM and Sirius are trying to sweat talk the government into letting them merge. There are a few problems with that… like that they are the only satellite radio stations available. Oh yeah and the FCC told them they couldn’t own both satellite radio licenses.

But this is nuts. The FCC has no power to regulate content on satellite radio. This is purely XM trying to kiss government ass. I hope Howard Stern talks out against this. I hope some XM subscribers cancel their subscriptions. If I want to put on my tin hat… perhaps the Secret Service had something to do with this… but I find that unlikely. They’d probably just show up to Greg Hughes’ and Anthony Cumia’s homes.

I’d like to see O&A’s contract. I would like to think they apologized not because they wanted to keep their jobs but because if they didn’t they would be breaking their contract and owe XM all the money it’s worth.
Just amazing…

Don Imus, JV and Elvis, Opie and Anthony, Donnell (Ashy) Rawlings. I could rant on all the who, what and why but I’ll let others do it for me. Here are some videos:

Glenn Beck: Bit at the end is dumb

Hannity and Colmes: They actually agree on something :-)

Carlos Mencia: regardless of his material’s sources in general… this is right on