Some have already tried it. Minnesota a few years ago passed a Clean Air tax. No kidding a tax on breathing. Despite having almost no air pollution anywhere in the state that is not naturally occurring. It caused such a furor it was abandoned, but it has already been tried.

Fill them with your non-potable tap water (ours is not rated safe for drinking) and shoot them with your favorite high-powered rifle or magnum shotgun.

Hence, limiting in any way, or hindering in any way, my access to bottled water would be an infringement upon my Second Amendment rights and will accordingly be met with extreme prejudice!

Seriously though, this is a perfect example of how some people simply cannot STAND the freedom and the prosperity we have in America, and all the amazing choices that come with it. When you see people spending money on such things, learn to feel good about it, because its a sign of our success. You make your own choices, leave others the hell alone, and enjoy it! Or as I recently put as a slogan on several of our T-shirts:

“Liberty: Learn it, Live it, Love it!”

The proper response when you see people spending inordinate amounts of money on something would be to start selling that particular something! Better yet, get in front of the next “something” and be the one who gets clean rich* off of it. Now get crackin’, slouchers!

* My pro-capitalist response to the utterly stupid and ignorant term, “filthy rich” (you don’t get rich in a free society without dutifully serving the wants and needs of your fellow man to a higher level than most, you understand).

Hang in there HerrBGone. A lot of people are in a similar situation.

This idea that we should not be able to have our choice of what we drink in just another attempt by Nanny Government to take away our choices and our rights. Folks in Texas have sulphur water, aka skunk water. To say it is unpleasant is an understatement. Imagine having to hold your nose to drink the water.

Um, no.

At my house, over time, the tap water will kill you. It’s loaded with arsenic and a variety of other fun things like a plethora of bacteria, all to far higher levels than deemed “safe” by the DEP. I live in Marxistchusetts, but in a third world neighborhood. To make matters even more fun, the town seems to want to kill the State funded project that We the People (of my third world neighborhood) hope will eventually provide us with safe drinking water and working sewers. In addition to the supply-side problems, the local septic system has been broken for years, if not decades. As a temporary measure to deal with the supply-side problems, we are being provided bottled water for cooking. Unfortunately, we are still forced to bath and wash our clothes and dishes in bacteria laced arsenic. (We’ve been using the cookout gear at the HerrBGone houshold ever since we found out to minimize the dish washing aspect of this as much as possible. Don’t tell the Algoreans…) So, not being suicidal, I won’t be drinking from the tap any time soon.

I do sincerely hope none of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation.

Depends on whether you want fluoride in your water. Why would you want to drink a topical dental solution? I have been fluoride free for over 16 years. I put the fluoride on my teeth, not in my body. Seems like common sense.

Insert Dr. Strangelove theories here.

TG, I knew I could count on you.

Get to work buddy.

And call these politicians too.

Bottled water is the new cigarette. For the children, for the Planet, can’t you just drink tap water?

p.s. They are coming after fat people next…how long until they want to tax the air we breathe?

I would also point out that some plastic bottles leach known carcinogens into water over time and that you’d be probably be better off with a reusable stainless steel water bottle filled with filtered tap water. But then I’d just be arguing with people who seem determined to prove Darwin correct, despite their denial of any other science.

So I would say the accusation of hyperbole some here have leveled is inaccurate. Let’s just say that it is early prognostication based on historical observations.

Oh, and I’m agin it. Does one never wonder why there isn’t a public awareness campaign about limousines, jet planes, yachts, etc. in government service? Because there is little likelihood the powers that be will vote themselves out of choices, but every chance a well run campaign can get them to vote us out of choices.

It was part of the $3000 dollar jogger outfit. People who couldn’t afford designer clothes shouldn’t try to run attitude. It just extended to rehydration also. No real yuppie could be seen drinking “common” water.

We took a 4400 mile road trip this summer. We consumed two cases of bottled water. Er, my wife did. I bathe in it, I don’t drink unless it has something in it I like. We paid for bottled water because we could put it in the ice chest in manageable sizes and we could have it available no matter how far it was to somewhere at the time we got thirsty. To me, it was a sensible use of bottled water. (Especially considering how cranky my wife gets with me when I don’t want to stop) We still have some of the bottles. My wife refills them with our well water, freezes them and carries them around with her all day at work. Hey! I guess she looks cool even though we paid nothing for that water. The price of the well and accouterments has been amortized.

Instead, somehow a public awareness campaign with no restriction of choice whatsoever somehow is equated with an unconscionable infringement of personal freedom of choice. Methinks someone ODed on the Hyperbol-O’s this morning.

But this Global Warming induced nannyism is ridiculous.