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Philadelphia Soda Tax Leads To 30-50% Plunge In Sales, Mass Layoffs
Zero Hedge ^ | 02/22/2017

Posted on 02/22/2017 10:50:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Mariner

This is how you launder food stamps.

You buy soda with food stamps, then sell the soda for 50 cents on the dollar.


41 posted on 02/22/2017 11:21:00 AM PST by Brookhaven (If CNN is playing, ask them to change the channel. #ChangeCNN)
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To: Ozark Tom

“If Philly shoppers went to the trouble to shop out of area for soda, they probably went ahead and purchased much more in the same shopping run.”

That is exactly what is and will happen. Also a black market may emerge.


42 posted on 02/22/2017 11:21:12 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: dsc
Philthadelphia is right across the river from Camden, NJ.

That leaves Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties. The only people this tax screws are those without wheels. Kenney hates hipsters and poor black people. I'm wondering if the black market is in operation yet?

43 posted on 02/22/2017 11:22:06 AM PST by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: ISTHISONETAKEN
they are just buying it elsewhere.

Likely from the raghead trash getting food stamps, using said stamps to buy soda, then selling the soda on the streetcorners.

44 posted on 02/22/2017 11:23:13 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: dsc

I have NEVER been there so I am clueless as to what the area is like!!! I will take your word for it YIKES!!!!


45 posted on 02/22/2017 11:23:56 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: day10

“I gave up soda/pop completely about 10 years ago. One of the better decisions I have ever made.”

I gave it up almost four years ago, and have noticed no health benefits.


46 posted on 02/22/2017 11:24:04 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
In this case it is destroying a market in one area, but opening a market in another. Pretty soon, rather then rescind the tax they will create a SODA POLICE and demand that any soda consumed within city limits have a tax stamp attached.

Then they will begin to go after smugglers.

It's like what they do in Washington DC with fireworks, which are illegal there but legal in Virginia. Every 4th the fireworks vendors spring up in Northern VA. And every 4th the DC cops park along the Potomac River bridges, halting cars to check for illegal fireworks.

47 posted on 02/22/2017 11:24:30 AM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: SeekAndFind

$3.28 per 10 pack buys enough fuel or bus fare to make the trip out of the city and back. New Jersey is loving this.


48 posted on 02/22/2017 11:26:10 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Stentor

“That leaves Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties. The only people this tax screws are those without wheels.”

Buncha those in Philadelphia.


49 posted on 02/22/2017 11:28:05 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I call it the Scrooge McDuck theory of liberalism. They actually believe that there is some vault of money available...and mean old republicans are the only thing standing between the sheeple and the vault of money...withholding it out of pure vindictiveness.


50 posted on 02/22/2017 11:28:31 AM PST by lacrew
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Watch these same political make a law against bringing sodas in from out of town with extremely heavy fines. And the set up Soviet style check points.


51 posted on 02/22/2017 11:31:03 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella
$3.28 per 10 pack buys enough fuel or bus fare to make the trip out of the city and back. New Jersey is loving this.

Cheapest way to get out of Jersey by car is on the Tacony-Palmyra with a $4.00 toll. $5.00 on the other bridges. Don't know bus or train fares.

52 posted on 02/22/2017 11:32:40 AM PST by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: dsc
Buncha those in Philadelphia.

I guarantee that they almost all of them supported Kenney.

53 posted on 02/22/2017 11:34:45 AM PST by Stentor (A day without illegals is like a day without food poisoning.--Salamander)
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To: SeekAndFind

The dumb, greedy, big city, big government, tax-and-spend liberal mindset destroys more jobs and business. Well done, idiots...


54 posted on 02/22/2017 11:37:10 AM PST by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Seattle mayor ed Murray just proposed a 2 cent per ounce tax on sugar drinks yesterday. Fools.


55 posted on 02/22/2017 11:37:29 AM PST by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: dsc; Mercat
I drink one, maybe two sodas a month. I drink none of the flavored water. I do drink plain bottled water but not as much as I used to. It’s all too expensive. And the sodas are toxic. When I drink one now I really notice it.... feel yucky for an hour or two.
Do you check your blood sugar?

I dont know about Mercat but I am diabetic. When i sample a soda (just half) because I miss the taste,lol. Once every couple months. I get nauseous and sick all day. All it takes is a half a bottle. So, if you dont already know google diabetic and symptoms.

56 posted on 02/22/2017 11:37:48 AM PST by Aaron0617
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To: Aaron0617

“So, if you dont already know google diabetic and symptoms.”

I’m type II as well. When somebody says that sugar intake makes them feel bad, that’s where my mind goes.


57 posted on 02/22/2017 11:41:23 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Aaron0617

I drink diet sodas when I rarely drink them. I hate the taste of corn syrup. So no, I’m not diabetic but I think its a reaction to the nasty stuff that they sweeten it with.


58 posted on 02/22/2017 11:42:22 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Stentor

“I guarantee that they almost all of them supported Kenney.”

Crazy, ain’t it?


59 posted on 02/22/2017 11:42:51 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This was the intent, though. To drastically cut sales of these beverages in the city.

How they are going to simultaneously drastically cut sales and raise a lot of revenue, is beyond anyone with working brain cells.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Soda-companies-supermarkets-report-50-percent-losses-from-soda-tax.html


60 posted on 02/22/2017 11:44:12 AM PST by ltc8k6
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