Posted on 06/06/2017 1:00:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
So that adds .21 cents to a 12 oz. soda and .35 to a 20 oz. size. This will end well.
” I just don’t get it.”
Neither do I. I left Seattle in the mid-80’s. If I go thru there today (and I don’t if I can help it) all I see is highrises and traffic jams. The house I bought for 25K in 1975 had a for sale sign on it - priced at a low 400K. Oh, and the whole place is now governed by commie/socialists.
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This is foolish.
It is the artificially sweetened drinks that are most harmful, by several orders of magnitude.
Neurological catastrophe in a bottle!
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Bye the way, I go to or through Philadelphia regularly for work. I make it a point to make all food and drink purchases outside the city.
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>> “Oh, and the whole place is now governed by commie/socialists.” <<
And when was it not?
Seattle was palpably Marxist in 1960.
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Don’t drink soda.
Try seltzer instead.
sarc city USA!
Now, faithful proles, it is time to do your duty and continue buying soda in Seattle. Do not travel five miles to shop out of the city limits.
The Comintern, in ever doing right by Mother Earth, has helped you in making the right decision by hobbling your transportation choices.
Arterials that were previously increased to 30 mph speed limits from 35 mph, have now been speeded up to 25 mph.
Any of you that think they can go 25 mph will have arterials reduced to one lane for additional bike lanes.
Bringing you closer to a cashless, utopian society, Sound Transit’s light rail plan will cost $54 billion (!) dollars for 112 miles of track. In a breathtaking example of modern construction, it will be completed in 2040.
The wisdom of our forefathers saw that our main freeway was bottlenecked through downtown with only two through lanes in each direction. Later, we made a convention center over the freeway, with the foundation columns guaranteeing that the freeway lanes could never, ever be expanded.
We’re going to knock down the only other highway choice through downtown, and replace it with a tunnel that is only two years and $100 million dollars over schedule and budget.
To quote the great Dave Barry, not making this up.
March for Sugar !
$2.52 per 12 pack of soda, that’s a huge tax.
Wanna bet these redistribution dollars, if they’re going to “families who can’t afford healthy food”, will be spent on processed, starchy, boxed and canned food like most food pantries have?
Nice.
“Seattle was palpably Marxist in 1960.”
Actually, the entire Puget Sound region has been headed in that direction for well over 100 years, going back to the Wobblies.
“So that adds .21 cents to a 12 oz. soda and .35 to a 20 oz. size. This will end well.”
Or $2.52 per twelve pack. That is enough that people with cars will buy outside of town and stock up for home use. With a high minimum wage and this I suspect more workers will be bringing lunch from home.
I call it the Scrooge McDuck theory - liberals really believe that faceless business owners have a vault full of gold in the back room.
““If Philadelphia shows big revenues and there’s not a huge amount of complaint, every city in the country will be doing it,” he said. “It’s a beautiful way to tax people and make them think you’re doing them a favor.”
Why do I keep hearing that old truism; “Taxes are never levied for the benefit of the taxed?” By-the-bye, is it safe to drink the water in Seattle?
——tax of 1.75 cents per ounce to be paid by distributors of beverages——
Hard to believe these people are that clueless to think these taxes will not be passed on to the consumer...
Of course they can claim we didn’t raise the peoples taxes but the evil soft drink companies...
Convenience stress will simply buy from distributors
outside Seattle
For every tax is way to evade it
And passed right along to those evil consumers.
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