Posted on 06/28/2017 5:25:02 PM PDT by jfd1776
So people will drop back and not buy as much or none at all so then where will their none existent tax money go? It’ll be like folks who think they’ve saved a couple of hundred on a TV or something and think they’ve got money they’ve never had.
Chicago needs more money.
Liberals are funny.
Time for Chicago convenience stores to sell unsweetened tea with add your own sugar syrup on the side.
Drink water
>>But what about for fountain drinks? <<
Most MacDonalds charge a flat $1 for a drink any size with unlimited refills.
Now what?
Complicated issue but, the market wilk simplify it and purchase less.....way less...
[Now what?]
They should keep doing what they are doing. $1 unlimited refills for any size. Watch their sales soar and others to follow suit.
This will hurt the ratchets in the hood the most.
The stores in the collar counties and northwest Indiana will be happy.
“A shopping cart that includes cases of both La Croix and diet colas will result in the former being exempt and the latter being taxed”
Well, one is flavored water and the other is well ... flavored water ...
Obvious unfairness and ip aspic inequality aside, is this ethical? Lots of people believe these sorts of products shouldn't be permitted to be purchased with food stamps.
Chicago can’t even pay the lottery winners.
It’s a Chicago thing.
Mob run. Mob ruled.
Only the names have been changed.
“ip aspic”? How did that happen? I typed “basic.” Anyway, moving on.
Those $1 drinks have been a gold mine for McDs.
Many times people drive up just for a drink and end up adding a cheeseburger or fries or something.
flavored water is included in the tax
The McDonald’s situation isn’t as simple as a couple of you assume.
Remember, this is a tax per ounce, not an ad valorum tax on the price.
So when you pay that dollar at McDonald’s, they still have to charge you another 20 cents if you pick the 20 oz size, or another 32 cents if you pick the 32 ounce size....
It’s not like the dollar drink ever included tax. It was always subject to our eight to ten percent sales tax, and now it’s also subject to the penny per ounce tax on top of that.
The challenge is that restaurants tend to be, shall we say, “generous” with ice. Now that you’re paying tax on every ounce, aren’t you more likely to demand “light ice”, and get furious if they put in too much ice?
It’s a different challenge when you get into the issue of free refills. One restaurant may give free refills but pass on the tax on them, and another restaurant may give free refills but choose to absorb the tax.
And consider the fast food places where you go up and get your drink yourself. These tend to be the MOST cost conscious places, like McDonalds and Burger King, where they definitely can’t afford to absorb the tax on the free refills... but they’ve built the cost savings of do-it-yourself drinking into their process. What do they do now... find a way to charge, or end free refills entirely, or end the do-it-yourself part and move the soda machines back into their cluttered kitchens again like in the old days?
THESE are the kinds of things I’m talking about:
The incredible cost of compliance.
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Then there’s the food stamp challenge: With less than two weeks to go before implementation, the County decided to grant a massive tax break: people paying with welfare cards such as SNAP would not be subject to the tax. How to implement that… especially since the retailer already paid the tax upon receipt from his wholesaler? And is it even fair for the same customer to pay a tax when using one form of payment, but not when using another form of payment?
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Yes, taxpayer. Not only do you get the PRIVILEGE of (forcibly) supporting the poor, you get to subsidize their bad food choices too!! Govt is going to assist in YOUR choice though, and not allow the same exemption.
It’s for the public good, y’know.
This is a must-read lesson in the failures of Marxist economics
Who said stupid people couldn’t be creative?
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