THE TAX THAT ATE PHILADELPHIA

The Philadelphia Citizen ^ | 01/04/2019 | BY LARRY PLATT

[Kid Shelleen]

---snip--- The saga of Philadelphia’s soda tax war is about more than arcane tax policy, and it’s about more than who may be up and who may be down in this year’s mayoral election. It really gets to a big philosophical question: Just what does it mean to be progressive nowadays?

Mayor Kenney and his allies speak the lingua franca of progressivism, but when what you hold up as your signature accomplishment is a tax, as opposed to the program it might fund, and when that leads to the expansion of a food desert in a city with the worst poverty in the nation and among the highest tax and lowest economic growth rates…you have to ask: Just how progressive are you?

[Kid Shelleen]

Larry Platt is a pretty honest progressive (really). The idiot Mayor has gotten himself in hot water and now even loyal progressives are calling him out about the failed soda tax program and all the lies and broken promises.

* The soda tax has created food deserts.
* Any food store near the city border is in big trouble.
* RedTards are finally realizing the soda tax is regressive
* The Black Clergy has pulled its support for the regressive soda tax
* Mayor Kenney LIED about the amount of revenue that would be generated
* Mayor Kenney LIED about starting zero based budgeting.
* Mayor Kenney LIED about raising taxes

[mkmensinger]

I recall that Mayor Kenney was shocked to discover that retailers were passing the tax along to consumers. Idiot.

[Bonemaker]

Phuck Filthydelphia.

[foreverfree]

City of Bumperly Love

[Da Coyote]

Heh, the name Kennedy out to alert folks in and of itself.

[magamomma]

this was my neighborhood shop when I was a girl, my dad would walk there a couple of times a week, with his shopping basket and coupons, he would shop for my mom, what a shame for the neighborhood.

[wjcsux]

Democrats are like locusts, they destroy anything in their path.

[Lagmeister]

Read piece. What the hell does Trump have to do with the situation. Damn commies eating their own. Trump has given PA jobs and a tax cut and they go right back and vote in Casey. Let them eat cake in the city.... that is if they can find a store in which to buy it.

[cowboyusa]

White Leftists are the biggest enemy in America.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Yeah an “honest” progressive but still couldn’t get through more than two or three paragraphs without a gratuitous swipe at Trump or two. TDS.

[LeonardFMason]

Jim Kenney is a nasty, petty, angry, venomous, hateful, ignorant, thoughtless, Liberal Democrat.

Other than that he an obnoxious asshole.

I live in a Philly Suburb. Philadelphia isn’t just a food desert. It is a HOPE and Common Sense desert.

[Chode]

RATS aren't smart enough to understand the business model of a lemonade stand...

[17th Miss Regt]

* Mayor Kenney LIED about the amount of revenue that would be generated
* Mayor Kenney LIED about starting zero based budgeting.
* Mayor Kenney LIED about raising taxes

But he’s a bro’, so what’s the problem?

[cyclotic]

I go to Philadelphia occasionally for work. I make it a point to not eat meals in city limits so I don’t have to pay the ridiculous soda tax.

[Stentor]

BJs in Plymouth Meeting is an easy run. Haven't bought any soda in the city since the tax. Screw that creepy commie bastard, Kenney. Brown is a useful idiot being dispatched by the Bolsheviks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kid Shelleen.

• Philadelphia's Soda War

[Tucker39]

Sounds like an Obama clone.

[NonValueAdded]

Here's the main point:

That’s because it ain’t really about the soda. Brown’s sweetened beverage sales are only down 3 to 4 percent. But his overall sales are down 23 percent, translating into a yearly $1 million loss, because when customers (especially those with cars) get their sweetened drinks mere blocks away across City Line Avenue, that’s where they do all their shopping. [empahsis added]

But I stopped reading because of all the Trump-bashing. Really, was that necessary?