Nanny State PING!
They should tax coffee in Seattle...it’s the fair thing to do.
My apologies to the FReeper who pointed it out weeks ago whose name I didn’t write down at the time, but the comment was made by one of the city council members that “No one is going to drive out of town for soda,” which is true. They’ll drive out of town for soda and buy the rest of their groceries at the same time. Smart move, Seattle.
“The people of the city need to speak up and end this nightmare.”
They are the scum that ordered it!
Seattle will keep the tax and as it brings in less and less revenue they’ll raise the tax to make up for it. Then tax the tax.
Freakin soda tax fails every place its tried but lunatic leftists keep foisting it on the people regardless of facts. Case in point Seattle.
...and, yet, Costco gives overwhelmingly to leftists and liberals. F' them and buy elsewhere.
Ahh, arrogant liberals once again think they can outsmart human nature. It’s why communism doesn’t work but they’ve become so radically insane for their cause, they refuse to listen.
CGato
democrats are not stupid, so it must be self-loathing that compels them to deny human nature and act in a way that is 100% opposed to it.
They need to tax people based on “presumed soda consumption”. That way, they’re sure to extract the money from them.
These types of taxes only hurt the people whom they are supposedly designed to help - poor people! These poor people are stuck in the city due to the lack of transportation, so THEY pay these exorbitant taxes, while middle class people drive to a neighboring city and purchase the same items without the taxes!
The city of Irving, Texas was one that prided itself on being a “dry city”, but everyone knew exactly where each beer joint was located just outside the city limits! DUH!
Just wait until Governor Inslee signs the bill for a soda tax on the entire state. I am hoping my fellow Washington citizens wake up and vote the tax-and-spend Democrats out of the governorship and out of both the House and Senate.
Your’re so stupid government must take care of you.
We won't see the Seattle Seahawks pouring Gatorade over coach Pete Carroll after a big win. Maybe they will be stirring up their own concoction. Otherwise, it will hike the cost of running a team.
His list of 3 reasons are 1-stupid, 2- fascist and 3- stupider
Not to worry...they’ll just make recreational marijuana legal and tax the hell out of it. Between the plant tax and the booze tax...the state will prosper and over pay their useless employees even more...just like here in NYS.
As I recall in Philly the distributors went under and stopped selling it.
Democrats don’t acknowledge dynamic scoring until it serves their purposes such as children shouldn’t smoke so we will raise the price of cigarettes to discourage them from smoking. They NEVER EVER allow that the same rule applies to other consumer behavior. Best example of this is the heavy truck tax increase in New Jersey about 20 years ago. Democrats doubled taxes on heavy trucks to double the tax yield. Ha ha ha ha the year before 1050 heavy trucks were sold in New Jersey. The year of the doubled taxes New Jersey sold 80 heavy trucks. People went to Pennsylvania and Delaware for heavy trucks. The following year they repealed it.
Liberals—the stupidest people on earth, rendered dangerous by the fact that they have no idea how stupid the are.
Unlike other states which implemented the tax and then repealed it, look for the ‘wise ones’ in Seattle to double down and 1) increase it or 2) call for a state-wide soda tax.