DUH!
I left something critical out of my last post, re the creative taxes. KUDOS to *sort-of Governor David Paterson, who wants to put an obesity tax on soda of the non-diet variety. You know that a tax on donuts is next. Then candy bars... There is no end to where this one can go, what with all the delicious fat laden foods out there. What a genius. Imagine how much this could fill their coffers...
For the record, I never eat or buy anything DIET, cuz I am of the opinion that I would rather eat sugar - a known "enemy" which after all is a natural product, than aspartame or any of the other sugar substitutes ,(and we dont fully know the long term effects of these) which after a few years on the market, always end up being found to cause cancer or other nasty diseases.

*by sort of Governor, I am referring to the fact that nobody actually elected this guy as their Governor. Which brings me to another ironic thought. Here we have a Sort of Governor in the position of appointing a sort of Senator. I wonder how often such a scenario has happened in history. My opinion, he will probably appoint Caroline Kennedy, who although she seems like a nice lady - based on the fact that every time I see a picture of her, she is smiling- is outdoing even Hillary in her carpetbagging shtick; going from average citizen to a Senator in one easy jump without **even having to endure the rigors of a campaign. A least our buddy Hillary was elected by the people of NY state in a legitimate election.

** I am aware that this is a run on sentence.