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RUSH: Those of you who live in New York, the governor there, David Paterson has come up with a way to raise $404 million. This morning on WNBC news, the correspondent Glenn Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

ZIMMERMAN: Another way to save some money or at least in this case make some money is the so-called obese tax. For example, with that, a can of Coke would cost 15% more than Diet Coke.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is going to raise taxes on fattening items, fat food items, and so if a can of Coke has sugar in it, a 15% higher tax. I, ladies and gentlemen, El Rushbo predicted this December 9th, 1994, on my television show.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: They\u2019re going to start capitalizing on this discrimination against the fat. I can see spending caps at McDonald\u2019s. Spending caps at McDonald\u2019s. We\u2019re going to hear stories about secondhand fat being a health hazard. You know what\u2019s going to happen, you\u2019re going to be sitting in that restaurant, that fat pig is going to be eating on salad or something and you\u2019re going to say, ‘You know, I\u2019m in the presence of a fat person eating and I can just sense fat globules all around me, and it\u2019s going to infect me and I\u2019m going to get fat.\u2019 Maybe they\u2019ll even have a calorie tax or a grams-of-fat tax. I mean this is just silly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s 14 years ago, and I, El Rushbo, called it. That\u2019s what I mean, folks, when I say being on the cutting edge of societal evolution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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