Never underestimate the gross stupidity of the liberal population of any major northeastern city.
It’s not about sugar or calories because they are taxing diet soda too, even if it has no sugar or calories.
Buy a Soda Stream, I guess.
I love mine - only used to carbonate water though.
Tax policy should never be used for social engineering.
I go to Philadelphia occasionally for work. If I’m there over lunch, I will be buying my own drinks outside the city and brining it to the restaurant.
The funny thing is the only people this tax will affect are the people democrat profess to care so much about, the dirt poor, mostly minorities. Anybody that is middle class or better has the means just to drive an extra mile outside the city limits to stock up on their beverage of choice or makes enough money that the tax wouldn’t even be noticed in their grocery bill.
Throw the soda in the harbor. Its been done before.
Or in this case, leave it on the shelf.
I guarantee this will be a boost to business. . . located just over the city line, or over the bridge . . .
It’s not so much the SUGAR in the soda pop; it’s the derned
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP that rots out your gut. - Still;
I’ll defend your right to guzzle that crap if you wish.
We used to get 8 oz. sodas sweetened with pure cane sugar &
they tasted good & were large enough.
That’s because it’s bad for you. Too much sugar, too much carbonation, too much freedom.
I agree, the first thing we need to do is make this Policy Count.
Any Public Employee found to be in possession of or has used any Beverage covered under this New Tax, SHALL BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY, Complete LOSS of ALL BENEFITS.
COme on the stuff is REALLY BAD, Let’’s BAN IT’S USE THEN!
Taxing children who just want to enjoy a soda pop at the ball game or the movies. Sad.
You, the great unwashed, are not to be trusted to make your own choice.
Besides the money advertised for has already been promised to be used for something else.
Sucka!
But mostly a government scheme to extort more money from the citizenry.
First they came for the smokers. Now they have the playbook for everyone else.
Some of us sounded the alarms to no avail. Even a good portion of FReepers were willing to sacrifice liberty so that their “clothes won’t stink” after going to a bar.
Enjoy the “Brave New World.”
I have a nephew (who is now in college as a Political Science major) who (last time I even tried to engage him in discourse) is all on board for regulation of people’s personal eating and other habits. Transfats, soda, you name it.
I said “What if you really like eating a certain food, like...ice cream, and the government decides that is bad for you, so they will start trying to tax it and/or outlaw it?” He just stared at me as if that hadn’t occurred to him.
That was at least five or six years ago. I don’t talk to him much anymore.
On a related item, my wife and I went to an ice cream stand that I have been going to most of my adult life, and I ordered a sundae, and wanted two flavors in it.
The young guy said “Would you like to order this double-sundae, you can get two flavors with that.” as he held out a long, rectangular dish. I declined, and said I didn’t want that much ice cream, and...picked up where I left off, saying “I would like half chocolate and half vanilla...” and he interrupted me and said “We can’t put multiple flavors in a cone or sundae unless you order this other thing...”
Taken aback, I pondered, then said, “OK. Ill just take chocolate, hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry...” and he said “We don’t offer cherries any more, sir.”
I think I must have been staring at him as my wife tried to intervene and guide me to the “appropriate” order so we wouldn’t hold up the line, but I persisted: “Why not? Why don’t you offer cherries?”
The kid said “They are unhealthy, we don’t stock them anymore.”
I must say, I was dumbfounded.
Here they are, selling these fat and sugar filled concoctions that will clog your arteries just looking at them, but a maraschino cherry is “unhealthy”?
I know it is a private business, and the owner can make any rules he wants, but...I don’t think I am going back there ever again. 40+ years. Wow.
Stupid tax by stupid people for stupid people that elect their ‘leaders.’
Will the tax just be on “sugar” or the corn syrup they use. The irony in my neck of the woods is people import real soda pop from Mexico which has real sugar.
Time to draw a line in the sand. Everyone stranded in Philly - buy none of those drinks. Make the first month's revenue add up to nothing. Then let the City Council explain how it's going to pay for Universal Pre-K when all their projected revenue failed to materialize.
In the immortal words from a climate skeptic to the Mass. AG: "F**ck Off Fascist". This should be our rallying cry.