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
We’ll be glad to have you here. We need more bitter clingers in PA.
The South has humidity, plenty-o-bugs and Kudzu always trying to overtake your compound....
Obama’s first tax was on tanning booths. Precedent set.
Sick sick white people fighting against white people
The practice of taking money from Identity Group A to pay for benefits for Identity Group B is a form of slavery for Identity Group A. It is instituted by labeling Identity Group A privileged oppressors and Identity Group B impoverished victims. Demographic changes will entrench the practice further unless there is a paradigm shift.
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Diet drinks are the most destructive ones.
All artificial sweeteners used in them are neuro-toxins.
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Starbucks is a Seattle-based company. How do they like having a new tax on their products?
-——I thought black women were the life blood of Diet Pepsi?———
Having been in the soft drink business for 25 years, that’s news to me...
:) been awhile since my vote mattered. I will definitely be there at 62. The ongoing war with my wife about moving continues.
Mom lives on Staten Island too and none of my other brothers and sisters do. She is 84. She will not be living on her own in 13 years I think. though Sicilians are stubborn!
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Remember when they used to advertise Kudzu on TV as a miracle lawn?
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Sessions won't even take on the blatantly illegal rulings of the 9th Circuit, which is an honest to God constitutional crisis.
He seems to have recused himself from acting as the Attorney General.
I think it was an explanation for why the black woman was throwing a can at a white chick.
Look for this to happen in dozens of more cities and towns.
The same tax is being imposed in leftist Santa Fe, NM and even the little supposedly conservative podunk town that I am getting the hell out of permanently as soon as I can dump my house there.
They should. None of that stuff is particularly good for your health and if you just have to consume lots of sugars, citric acid and the rest of that garbage there are alternatives. Many of them cheaper to begin with.
These Leftist politicians have gone stark raving crazy, everything is race to them and they have to punish whitey for being white. This is sheer lunacy.
Liberalism 101: Only whites can be racist, bigoted, or prejudiced. This is settled science, and may not be disputed.
Wrong.
The DOJ has a Civil Rights Division that needs to do something useful for a change.
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