Posted on 05/07/2017 2:42:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The mayor of Seattle has altered the rules of his proposed soda tax — which would fund education for minorities–to include diet drinks because affluent white people tend to consume them more.
Mayor Ed Murray of the staunchly liberal Seattle city originally proposed the soda tax during his state of the city address in February. Under his initial plan, distributors of sugary drinks would have to pay 2 cents per ounce.
It would cover sodas such as Coke and Pepsi, energy drinks like Red Bull, fruit drinks, sweetened teas and bottled coffees such as those sold by Starbucks.
The Mayor claimed the tax would bring $16 million in revenue that would be spent on education programs aimed at reducing disparities between the city’s white students and students of color.
But the mayor has updated the plan after the staff of the mayor’s office told him that the tax would actually disproportionately fall on poor minorities, who have higher rates of soda consumption than white residents.
Murray changed the bill, lowering the levy to 1.75 cents per ounce and included diet drinks because they are by favored by affluent white city residents, despite the fact that most diet drinks have no calories and therefore don’t contribute to obesity.
According to Reason, taxing diet drinks has become “an issue of equality” to the mayor because they more likely to be consumed by “upper middle class white people” and therefore must be taxed as a way to fight “white privileged institutionalized racism.”
The white privilege tax may be a distraction for Murray, who’s facing accusations from four men that he paid for sex and sexually abused them in the 1980s when they were teen boys. A high profile lawsuit from one of the men filed last month claims that Murray “raped and molested him” over several years, beginning in 1986 when the man was a 15-year-old high-school dropout. Murray has denied the accusations
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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?
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.
As others chimed in, people have in other places.
I’d hate to be a retailer and have to deal with this nonsense.
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 :)
Obama had a tax put on tanning booths. Hmmmmm. Who would that affect?
I doubt consumption is off, people are probably going elsewhere to buy it. They’re obviously lying as usual.
I’ve seen a chart posted here and there with welfare purchases and what percentage use it to buy soda.
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.
Could be.
Philly will probably have cops at the city limits to keep smuggling down?
Kinda like the NYC cigarette police?
Yet another reason to incessantly laugh - at and ridicule LIBs. LIB idiots who elect these nitwits deserve this lunacy. Hahahaaaa.
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!
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.
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!
We already have a “privilege” tax. The income tax code requires a greater percentage of income be confiscated from those making more money.
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....
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