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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.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bluezones; cola; diet; edmurray; murray; seattle; soda; sodatax; tax; taxandspend; washington
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To: DoughtyOne

That is what will start occurring.


81 posted on 05/07/2017 3:40:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Paladin2; dp0622

The North has leeches sucking on your paychecks.


82 posted on 05/07/2017 3:40:15 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Altura Ct.

The mayor is a self -hating racist.

Probably has mommy problems too.

5.56mm


83 posted on 05/07/2017 3:41:01 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Captain Compassion
Taxing diet drinks because white people consume them may be another issue

It is a Fourteenth Amendment issue (denial of Equal Protection.)

84 posted on 05/07/2017 3:41:51 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Popman
An Equal Protection violation is an egregious civil rights violation.
85 posted on 05/07/2017 3:44:21 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Should be called the Relocate Existing Soda Distributors Outside the Beltway Ordinance of 2017. As Philly discovered, that will be the primary effect.
86 posted on 05/07/2017 3:46:02 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Altura Ct.

We should then be able to add on “liberal socialist taxes to items.

Like $50,000 gay wedding cake tax.


87 posted on 05/07/2017 3:47:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BipolarBob
Is this not the same reasoning the Trump immigration ban was stopped by the ninth circuit ?

Because Trump announced during his complain that he would stop Muslims from entering the country ?

Same thing. Soda tax has nothing to do with health. Its about soaking those of us that work and limiting our choices.

Specifically rich white people.

88 posted on 05/07/2017 3:49:15 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Altura Ct.

This idiot mayor just might want to touch bases with the idiot Philadelphia mayor:

“. . .Since this [1.5 cents per ounce]tax has gone into effect on Jan. 1, consumption of the sweet drinks is off by as much as 50 percent, according to retailers, and companies involved in getting these drinks to consumers are reporting huge losses and announcing layoffs.”

FRom http://nypost.com/2017/03/05/phillys-soda-tax-is-crushing-the-citys-beverage-business/


89 posted on 05/07/2017 3:50:57 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Altura Ct.

They should tax taxes since white people seem to be the only ones who have the “privilege” of paying them.


90 posted on 05/07/2017 3:51:00 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: dp0622
an invitation

northcoast

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91 posted on 05/07/2017 3:52:12 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: dp0622

Oh yeah. The mosques and muslims are downstate, 5 hours away.


92 posted on 05/07/2017 3:53:54 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Altura Ct.

“The mayor of Seattle has altered the rules of his proposed soda tax...”

I hope he doesn’t also apply it to pop.


93 posted on 05/07/2017 4:03:12 PM PDT by mouske
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To: mouske

Right? What is soda???


94 posted on 05/07/2017 4:09:19 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Hildy

Ask your city commissioner.


95 posted on 05/07/2017 4:11:10 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: BipolarBob
Why not just have a “white tax”? I mean, this is where we’re headed.

Maybe Rachel Dolezal had the right idea all along.

96 posted on 05/07/2017 4:11:30 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Shqipo
When will the Buggery tax be implemented?

Hear, hear! Stick it to the man!

97 posted on 05/07/2017 4:17:56 PM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: Paladin2
Seattle must be crime free

Obeying the law and not being arrested is a white privilege issue and a racist micro-aggression.

The only fair way to remedy the issue is arrest a randomly selected white every time a black is arrested. /s

.

98 posted on 05/07/2017 4:21:28 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: dp0622

:)


99 posted on 05/07/2017 4:22:01 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Paladin2

Ummm, not up in them thar hills !!


100 posted on 05/07/2017 4:23:21 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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