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Seattle Mayor Adds Diet Drinks to His Soda Tax ‘To Tackle White Privilege’
HeatStreet ^ | 5/6/2017

Posted on 05/07/2017 2:42:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

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To: Altura Ct.

This is the liberals’ version of the jizya tax. Muzzards tax non-muzzards just for existing. Liberals tax Whitey for existing. Exactly the same thing. Call it reparations or jizzya, same thing.


121 posted on 05/07/2017 5:45:57 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: dp0622

Being Sicilian, you’d probably like the small town of Roseto. It’s not as Italian as it used to be, but still more Italian than most areas.


122 posted on 05/07/2017 6:00:49 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Is it conservative. Italian areas usually are.

At least in the five boroughs.

I dont mind so much living in a liberal city or state if my borough or town is Italian :)


123 posted on 05/07/2017 6:07:08 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

I can’t say for certain, as I live a few towns over from Roseto, but most small towns in PA are Conservative. Just like every other state, the leftists infest the big cities. You can look it up on Wikipedia, but Roseto is a town of less that 2000 people.


124 posted on 05/07/2017 6:20:44 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: TigersEye

I try to keep those types of drinks to a minimum.

This kind of thing really annoys me.

All these do-gooder initiatives are so juvenile it’s just laughable.

The soda tax, the container tax, the bags at super-markets...

Do these people have nothing to do but find ways to annoy us?


125 posted on 05/07/2017 6:23:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Calvin Locke

Doesn’t surprise me.

Folks have had it with these sorts of things.

You respond to them any way you can.

You just stop buying.


126 posted on 05/07/2017 6:27:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

As others chimed in, people have in other places.

I’d hate to be a retailer and have to deal with this nonsense.


127 posted on 05/07/2017 6:28:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Good. I’m TIRED of living in a town of half a million people.

And working in a borough with 8 million.

I’m not 30 or even 40 anymore.

Peace is good :)


128 posted on 05/07/2017 6:30:37 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: blackbetty59

Obama had a tax put on tanning booths. Hmmmmm. Who would that affect?


129 posted on 05/07/2017 6:37:42 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't be a pessimist, be an optometrist.)
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To: Taxman

I doubt consumption is off, people are probably going elsewhere to buy it. They’re obviously lying as usual.


130 posted on 05/07/2017 6:38:41 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Ken H

I’ve seen a chart posted here and there with welfare purchases and what percentage use it to buy soda.


131 posted on 05/07/2017 6:46:02 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: DoughtyOne

I think this low level stuff is mostly to condition the populace to accepting the Nanny State. If they can rake in a few bucks on it so much the better.


132 posted on 05/07/2017 6:57:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: TigersEye

Could be.


133 posted on 05/07/2017 7:26:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Trillian

Philly will probably have cops at the city limits to keep smuggling down?

Kinda like the NYC cigarette police?


134 posted on 05/07/2017 7:45:01 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

Yet another reason to incessantly laugh - at and ridicule LIBs. LIB idiots who elect these nitwits deserve this lunacy. Hahahaaaa.


135 posted on 05/07/2017 9:03:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: hal ogen

AGREED!

However, we need to quit calling them “LIBs.”

The proper term to use is “LIEberal.”

Because they LIE!

They have to LIE! No one would EVER vote for a LIEberal if they told the truth, and every LIEberal knows that!


136 posted on 05/08/2017 4:39:42 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

I call them Neoeuropans. They look across the water and long for what they see to be American.

American Liberals are at base just copy cats.


137 posted on 05/08/2017 4:41:47 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: bert

Well, I refer to them in any context as LIEberals!

LIEberals have been hard at work, since the founding of the Republic (under many guises), to destroy the Republic. They very nearly succeeded, and had Hitlery the harridan been elected, they would have finished their 230 year old quest.

We are damn lucky to not have Hitlery the harridan in the White House, but we must see to it that President Trump stays on course!


138 posted on 05/08/2017 5:01:48 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: GraceG

We already have a “privilege” tax. The income tax code requires a greater percentage of income be confiscated from those making more money.


139 posted on 05/08/2017 5:49:21 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Bob434
they can tax anything they want....

people are only looking for tax revenue and everyone knows that diet sodas are highly popular....

they want that tax money....so they had to expand their scope of taxation....

they can call it a health initiative all they want but we all know a money scam when we see it....

like cigarettes....they really won't outright ban it, because it brings in too much tax revenue....

140 posted on 05/08/2017 7:25:58 AM PDT by cherry
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