Posted on 06/16/2016 3:17:49 PM PDT by SMGFan
The Philadelphia City Council on Thursday voted 13-4 in favor of a bill that became known as the “soda tax.” It will impose a 1.5-cent tax per ounce for soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages include fruit drinks, sports drinks, flavored water, and energy drinks. The tax goes into effect at the beginning of next year. Notably, it excludes baby formula, any product that has a base that is majority milk, and some other healthier offerings predetermined by the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
-—Translation: Tax proceeds will also go to democrat campaign funds.-—
What tax proceeds?
At that tax rate per ounce, tax revenue on sugar drinks will plummet...
They will collect less taxes...
People will switch to diet drinks instead of paying exorbitant taxes...
These dems must be brain dead stupid...
Diet drinks are also taxed with the Philly sugar tax...
Philly is not that big a city. A 15 minute drive from anywhere in the city and you are in the suburbs or NJ.
Lots of people will be shopping outside the City limits.
Catsup has Sugar / Sucrose in it.
Sugar has sugar in it too. Dunkin, Starbucks and every other Outlet that serves Coffee had better stop offering Sugar with their Coffee.
Do I have to pay more Tax if I get a Drink Refill when I get a Big Mac for Lunch at McDonalds? Where there be a Soda Fountain Monitor?
Black market will fill the need.
Residents will go to the suburbs to buy their soda for home. They will also buy powder to flavor their water.
It will kill convenience stores and small sandwich shops in the city. They will have to raise other prices to make up for the loss of profits from soda. More workers from the suburb will just bring their own meals into the city for lunch because of increased prices.
Whatever they think the increased revenue will be, they will be surprised how wrong they are.
well, the poor will pay it.....those with means will simply buy outside the city.....its dirty there anyway...
Yeah but the worst thing is if this thing works as a revenue grab it will spread.
they already suffer in “food deserts”
remember how they started with the cigarettes....
The idiot mayor - Kenny - ran a pro-tax ad complaining that the evil rich soda makers were making outrageous profits on the backs of the poor - then pushes to pass this tax which will raise more money for greedy government on the backs of the poor.....
Thanks...in the long standing Freeper tradition of NOT reading the article before posting a comment, I stand corrected..:)
“First they started with cigarettes”
The purported rationale behind the tax is the same as for cigs, but it actually goes back much further.
The REAL story is the gov could care less about the health (other than what they pay out, which means less for them). They care more about being able to pass a tax bill that people (saps) will support.
The first US excise tax was on alcohol, encouraged by Alexander Hamilton. Not for the reasons of health, but because the gov was strapped for cash and, needing a tax AND considering that a major gripe in the revolutionary cause was taxation, Hamilton felt it was more “tolerable” than other taxes that could be imposed.
Nevertheless, circumvention of the tax began almost immediately, kicking off that fine history of US bootlegging still in existence today.
A more interesting comparison to events of today is the uprisings held in response to the tax. Hamilton and Washington were believers in strong central government and wanted to make sure that the gov presented an “overwhelming force” to deal with it.
Sound familiar? An interesting contrast in the perspective of the founding fathers.
For more, search on “Whiskey Rebellion”. I’d say “google” but I’m afraid using that to search on anything to do with founding fathers might get you on a watch list.
Also, the Ron Chernow biography on Hamilton is excellent, not that I’ve compared others, but I enjoyed it tremendously.
McDonald's will sell you a cup for $1 and their soda won't cost anything.
Yep...income tax was “only for the rich” when they first came out with that one.
The soda companies should just stop selling in Philly. Period.
Smuggling coke will be rampant
There is a reason why snacks and soft drinks cost so much at the movie theaters
At one time I worked for a company that distributed to them, so I have a little inside information...
Most theaters cut per movie ticket is about .25 cents to .50 cents...so out of the $10.00 to $15.00 per ticket they charge, that's all they get...
For Block Busters sometimes the theaters make zero per ticket...
The difference all goes to Hollywood...
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