[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.

[Da Coyote]

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

[wjcsux]

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

[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.

[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

[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?