Philadelphia’s Soda War
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National Review ^
| January 14, 2019 | KYLE SMITH
Philadelphia’s outlandish soda tax is what Democratic-party politics looks like when it lets its freak flag fly. So
many classic elements are there: (failed) social engineering and “think of the children!” on one side, paid for with a punitive tax on poor people and destroyed businesses, which means destroyed jobs, which in turn means lives upended. What lives? Greedy capitalists with monocles, maybe? No, they’ll be fine. Think of ex-cons trying to regain their footing in society. To review this debacle, in 2017 Philadelphia, seeking to fund a universal pre-K program, slapped mammoth sin taxes on Coke and Pepsi (and...
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Grocers Are Caught in the Middle of Soda Wars
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NBC Bay Area ^
| 10/31 | Stephen Stock, Robert Campos, Jeremy Carroll and Felipe Escamilla
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit reveals the tactics, the spin and the big money being used to shape your opinion and win your vote.Temur Khwaja has been building his grocery business in Oakland for the past 14 years. Earlier
this year, he agreed to be in a television commercial to oppose a new tax on soda. Things haven’t been the same since. “They tried to use me, and use the business.” He says that soda company representatives convinced him that the soda tax was really a tax on all groceries. They explained that distributors would pass the tax on...
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Health warning for all Freepers using the Baking Soda / Dakin's Solution Oral Hygiene Protocol
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Vanity from Swordmaker | September 26, 2014 | Swordmaker
IMPORTANT! HEALTH WARNING! FOR ALL FREEPERS WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE BAKING SODA AND CLOROX-DAKIN'S SOLUTION PROTOCOL FOR ORAL HYGIENE AND TOOTH BRUSHING!!! The CLOROX Company has changed its basic Clorox formula to make it "concentrated" but has ALSO added LAUNDRY chemicals! I
just went to the Clorox™ website because I noticed the "concentrated" label on that bottle you linked to and it worried me. . . I wanted to check what the concentration of Sodium Hypochlorite was in their "concentrated" product. . . and to my horror I learned that Clorox has CHANGED their entire product line. ....
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American Beverage Association Sues San Francisco Over Soda Health Warning Legislation
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NBC Bay Area ^
| Monday, Jul 27, 2015 | Tamara Palmer
San Francisco's new legislation requiring sodas to carry health warning labels is being challenged in court by the American Beverage Association. The ABA, joined by the California State Outdoor Advertising Association and California Retailers Association, filed a lawsuit against the city on Friday, arguing that the legislation, which also would ban sugary-drink
ads on city property, is a First Amendment violation, reported SFGate. According to Convenience Store and Fuel News, the lawsuit in part alleges that the ban, "discriminates against speech based on the identity of the speaker, in violation of the First Amendment, by expressly prohibiting speech that includes...
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Beverage group sues city over soda warnings, advertising ban [San Francisco]
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AP ^
| 7/26/15
<p>The American Beverage Association has sued the city of San Francisco, claiming new legislation requiring health warning labels on sugary beverages and prohibiting advertisements of them on city property violates the First Amendment.</p>
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San Francisco Considers Health Warning on Soda Advertising
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ABC News ^
| June 9, 2015 | Janie Har
San Francisco officials are deciding whether to impose a warning on ads for a favorite drink of children and a bane of public health advocates: Sugary soda pop. The
"Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Ordinance" would require health warnings on advertising within city limits — on billboards, walls, the sides of cabs and buses. Supporters and opponents say San Francisco would be the first place in the country to require warnings on ads for soda, which is linked to rotting teeth and obesity.
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Assemblyman wants cigarette-like warnings on soda
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NYPost ^
| February 9, 2015
A can of Coke could soon look like a pack of Marlboros, if one Bronx lawmaker has his way. Assemblyman
Jeff Dinowitz has introduced the “Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act” — which would require tobacco-style health- warning labels on all sugary drinks, such a cola, iced tea and energy drinks. The labels would read: “SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.”
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The soda wars move to Berkeley
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hotair.com ^
| 10/19/2014 | Jazz Shaw
The progressive War on Soda may have failed in New York, despite the best efforts of the Deplorable Nanny State Mayor, but this is a multi-front battle which will clearly rage on for some time. As
any good battle commander will tell you, when fighting an opponent with numerical superiority, it’s best to drag them into a skirmish on your home turf. In the effort to save people from their own ignorant, evil selves, the fight to make soda more expensive – and thereby modify public behavior through tax policy – has moved to Berkeley.
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Detroit, the showcase of liberal governance where fire stations use soda cans as warning devices
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Coach is Right ^
| 9/6/14 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
The argument against liberals ever being in charge of our lives can be reduced to a single word: Detroit. Detroit has fallen from its position as one of the greatest cities in America at the beginning of the 1950s to a perfect reminder of what liberal Democrats will do when given enough
power and enough time to show who they really are. “The Motor City” had an unbroken succession of liberal Democrat mayors for more than 40 years and each of these men has contributed to the steady decline of their city. Acting in concert with greedy unions these mayors...
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