Restaurant Baby Tax

I've never heard of anything quite like this, but I've certainly seen restaurants and stores trying to "ban" babies. None of them had an outright "no babies/toddlers" policy - instead, they banned strollers. Unless you were willing to leave your stroller outside on the sidewalk, you weren't bringing your baby inside. I guess there are some folks who leave the house sans stroller (using a baby sling or just a carseat), but most of these places were in busy urban settings where it probably wouldn't have been realistic to carry a carseat that far, and even a sling could've gotten tiring. Definitely effective.

I was patiently waiting to check out at Sears today while 2 older women who knew each other and had evidently hadn't seen each other in a while where catching up. So they held up 2 lines. In between questions from the cashiers to get the purchasing done they discussed Jack Fry's, how no one would lunch with them, and what movies they had seen lately.
Are you going to tell me that when I go to a restaurant and try to keep my child quiet and get out in the world to (a) give me some relief as a parent from the day to day and spend some $$ and (b) teach the child some life skills/manners that I'm inconveniencing you? I give much of my kid's palate credit to dining out in public. And yes I nursed him in public as well. (People would have been honored to see a boob)
How about irritating lady tax on all the people that suck up your time when you have to bow down and go to the mall.
Save the tax for parents that let the kids sit on the barstools and spin while they unscrew salt shakers and leave us normal parents alone. Instead of baby tax, let it be people who have no class tax. You have to earn it. Maybe a punch card?