Let's check back in a few months to see how many millions the tax has raised...
The way the City of Seattle is going, all their businesses will be relocating to the surrounding suburban towns, leaving a hollow shell with a bunch of lost liberals wandering around in search of places to eat, buy food, and recreate.
Before one starts indicating “didn’t they see how it failed in Philadelphia,” they don’t care. They only care about power and restricting yours. Telling you what you can and cannot buy is a big part of it.
LMAO
Next, Directive 10-289
The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new tax on soda and other sugary beverages as way to raise millions for healthy food and education programs...? Not if no one buys the crap because the price is to high...Hello?
No tax on food stamp purchases = a money-making opportunity for the criminal class.
Workers will buy their sodas from the preyers on the poor.
A perfect Progressive policy!
Morons.
I guess Seattle lawmakers are too stupid to look at what the effect is in Philadelphia where hundreds have lost jobs and projected income is fractional.
But, in typical liberal fashion, Philadelphia wasn’t doing it right. We will.
Now the GOP should immediately get these items removed from the list of items Welfare recipients can purchase.
Seattle trying to play catch up with other libtard strong holds such as NY city, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Just another potential vacation tour stop crossed off my list.
I’ve been saying NYC has to do the same.
They have to pay for all the illegal alien invaders’ in-state college tuition and healthcare somehow.
This is the type of thing that will cause severe economic damage to every supermarket within King County, WA. Doesn’t the Mayor see what happened in Philadelphia, when supermarkets just outside the Philadelphia city limits did land office business because of no soda tax?
So that adds .21 cents to a 12 oz. soda and .35 to a 20 oz. size. This will end well.
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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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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 !
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?
““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?