Gil-
For what it is worth, I recommend that you buy local honey from a local
beekeeper, probably off the books, not subject to sugar (or any other
kind of) tax. It will be much healthier for you (the local pollens help
with allergies, etc.) and will support a local economy well beyond the
$.02 that goes back into the local economy for any $1.00 you might spend
at a supermarket (even one as folksy/homey as Trader Joes). There are
also locally grown raspberries and strawberries and even grapes (in
season) and lots of fruits (cherry, peach, apricot, plum, apples.
pears)... And as much as I like my year round bounty of fresh fruits
and veggies imported from around the world (with gawd knows how much
inefficiency and product waste/spoilage) it is possible that we (of
northern Euro descent?) were evolved for a diet that varies with what is
available and might be healthier not to have the same continuous access
to foods rich flavor/fat/sugar year round?
The catch is that you will probably pay as much for all these as you
would for the "sugar-taxed" versions shipped in from another hemisphere
with artificial economies and hidden costs to the environment and
society. But the extra will go to your friends and neighbor's who are
trying to make a living instead of Martinez's warchest or whatever might
be offensive about all this.
While I'm not big on government interference in matters such as this, it
might just be that it all balances out and rebalances the false
economies of subsidized (cheap oil/war) transportation and third-world
labor/production. Maybe in these Trumpian times I'm just looking for
Silver linings and new recipes for Lemonade from Lemons? Or living a
PollyAnna/PanGlossian delusion.
Just Sayin'
- Steve
PS. Next time I get a jar of honey from my local apiarist, I'll grab
you one "on the house".
On 4/25/17 1:54 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
As someone that's currently...Financially Challenged. All this crap
adds up, and as you note it's to easy to interpert how you want.
For example: I am (famously?) a tea lover. I love all kinds of tea,
medically helpful, just fun etc. Why do I mention that? How likely
would they decide my 2-3buck honey that makes fucking awsome mid
afternoon tea that's refreshing suddenly jump to 4-5 dollars?
Well 5 bucks to me
Besides if they REELY want free kick ass education (Great please
PLEASE do) Their might be better ways to go. Grocery stores (looking
at you smiths) charge out the ass for healthy fun to eat food.For
example ERMG It's so fun and nice to have fruits(Grapes and
strawberries) that in my famly I'm infamously for loving. Thouse have
sugers in them that are good for you(no idea how that works).As you
point out the wording leaves it open to the Martinez's of the world to
say: gee that 2buck a bag of graps is now I duno 5bucks!
for those keeping tabs that'd be a tank of gas between the honey and
fruits. Ouch.
I'm skeptical yet another tax will help anything.
Nickle and diming people does very little to help anyone. And frankly
just makes people mad and wonder where all that's going.
I wholy agree Santa Fe needs a fun kick ass research school And have
tried to make one twice going on third go.
The poloticing around education in this city and state like I said to
Edd and You made me wonder if I was on drugs LOL Or maybe they were.
Sufficed to say I doubt this'll help. Their needs to be a plan and the
city definatly needs to do somethings to bring in money. I'm just
skeptical this is the way to go.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For the FRIAMers in Santa Fe who might be interested in the
sugar-tax vote....
There's an interesting issue coming up on a May 2nd city ballot
here in Santa Fe: Whether the city can tax drinks with sugar. I
may have a short letter running in The New Mexican this week, but
here is the link to "Sugar Tax initiative built with a faulty
scaffold"
http://tiny.cc/SugarTaxOpEd
TJ
<http://tiny.cc/SugarTaxOpEd>
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