Updated … see below.

Oh. I just saw the newest juice-drink/soda tax commercial with that same woman in it whining about how the middle class just doesn’t need a new tax on our disgusting sugar water drinks. It’s going to break the middle class!!!

Does anyone think a few cents more for my weekly supply of Dr Pepper is going to break my budget? Does anyone think it will even make me stop buying it? Hardly. Not likely anyone else would even notice either. The prices at the grocery store fluctuate by some amount almost every week. Anyone who goes grocery shopping knows this.

And it’s not like juice-drinks (disgusting sugar water beverages with small tiny amount of fruit juice for flavoring) and sodas (sugar water with added chemicals) is some necessary and important part of any healthy diet or lifestyle. They aren’t exactly on the food pyramid, no matter what the labels try to tell you. There is no HFCS and water food group. If people drank less of them, it would be a good thing.

But no … the middle class won’t be able to pay their electric bill or feed their family if a few pennies are added to their disgusting sugar water purchases. These commercials are bloody ridiculous.

UPDATE: OK, I saw it again, and at the beginning of the commercial, the mom is all sad, because she has to tell her son he can’t buy some “interactive DVD game” –whatever the hell that is– because that damn soda tax has left them too broke. Times are tough! We need our soda and juice-drinks!

Oh, and they’d really like everyone to hear it as juice and drinks and soda that would be taxed. There’s a careful little pause when they say juice-drinks that almost makes it sound like two words. Well, that’s not true. The tax would be on soda and sodas pretending to have some nutritional value due to the four drops of apple juice and grape juice they put in each bottle.

Gods, how I hate theses ads.