Posted on 09/23/2017 6:59:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why are they complaining?
I thought the goal was to reduce sales.
Tiny Bubbles
Don’t worry. Because of the stunning success of this tax the Illinois Legislature will demand it be levied statewide. It’s only fair...
L
“They should force everyone to buy soda or opt out and pay a fine.
Like with health insurance.”
You’re brilliant.
L
“They just need to raise the gas tax also.”
They’re already writing bills to do just that.
L
Stupidity and corruption are the hallmarks of Cook County/Chicago politics. “You can’t have one without the other” (”Guys and Dolls?”) In Chicago it would be “Democrats and Hookers”.
This would be about the time that die-hard supporters would claim that this actually wasn’t “a real soda tax”, and/or “not implemented correctly”, and that’s why it failed.
Here in Washington state they kept raising the gas tax to incentivise electric vehicles. They are all over the place now. (My brother in the MidWest was going on and on about his neighbor’s new Tesla. “Yeah - they look nice. In Seattle they are all over the place. Driving to church, 3 miles away I’ll probably see four or more.” He thought I was lieing - I’m not. It is probably five or more now since I had that conversation with him.)
Anyway - now the state is talking about chips on cars and taxing for the amount of miles driven. Too much lost revenue on the gas tax. (The lower price of gas MIGHT have something to do with it - but I think most of the tax is a cost per gallon rather than a percentage of the sales price.) The articles I’ve read “blame” the increased use of electric cars.
Inner city black youth murder rate and soda tax, soda tax wins out!
... and remove all the carbon dioxide from the Chicago beer.
Back in the day, 18 year old kids would be souping up their cars. Now they’ll be hacking the chips.
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