Posted on 01/06/2018 3:36:14 AM PST by FreedomPoster
People are feeling sticker shock over Seattle’s sugary drink tax.
You might’ve seen a picture circulating on social media that shows a more than $10 tax on a $15.99 case of Gatorade at Costco. On Friday, shoppers were taking their own pictures, stunned by the new prices.
Advocates of the tax held a press conference on Friday, to explain how the city plans to use the $15 million expected to be raised from the tax in 2018.
One Costco shopper loaded a case of Coca-Cola into her cart, not noticing the new price until KIRO7 pointed it out.
“That much!” said Vilma Villagran, who was buying the case for her family.
The regular case of Coke is now $7.35 more expensive than the Diet Coke or Coke Zero.
“I knew it was going to be high, but not that crazy high,” Villagran said.
Other shoppers closely read the sign, which explains that as of Jan. 1, Seattle shoppers are paying 1.75 cents per ounce on sugar-sweetened beverages – something shoppers are really noticing when buying in bulk.
The tax has many people opting for the diet soda.
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You have a point there, which is why I want the tax write-offs eliminated too.
Regulating commerce should be about commerce - only - not control. Taxation should be about revenue only (yes, I get write offs, and I take them rather than sending more of my money to America’s enemies in the Deep State). We need a lot less government. We need so little government that there is no room to get rich from government corruption. We need so little government that petty tyrants have no interest in governmental office.
These communities are SO CORRUPT..... but the people who allow it are worse than MORONS! They deserve what they vote for!
Whatever anyone might think of a sugar tax, there will be more. It puts sugar in the category of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, harmful substances that should be taxed because of the societal costs that result from their use.
The more that is learned, and generally accepted, about the harm caused by sugar in our diets, the more jurisdictions we’ll see assessing a sugar tax.
“...to explain how the city plans to use the $15 million expected to be raised from the tax in 2018.”
I will make two predictions.
1. The new tax will not generate anywhere near the $15 million they estimate.
2. They have already spent the $15 million.
If you’re an inactive couch potato who consumes more energy than you burn, then the excess consumption is harmful. To me, that’s a personal choice. To petty tyrants, that’s an opportunity to assert control over the little people.
They’re gonna build stack n pack housing for refugees and the homeless. It’s social justice, ya know.
Taxes are seldom, if ever, levied for the benefit of the taxed. Socialist Seattle has voted in a Nanny State government and this, plus the $15 minimum wage will be a good test of how well they do.
Right now, Seattle, like Venezuela before it, is riding a wealth wave, in this case coming from being a MAJOR Tech Center. Amazon is HQed there, Microsoft is in the area and there is a bunch of ancillary businesses brought by them.
It will be instructive to see what happens to this Socialist Paradise!
Ummm, because it is a poison.
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Oh, bullshit.
Perhaps today’s kids lack any healthy exercise after school and during the summer. We climbed trees, rode bikes, rowed boats, played baseball, played basketball, went to skating rinks, rode pigs, dug tunnels, built tree forts, rode down hills on soap box racers, jumped into hay, swang on ropes, hiked in the Olympics, skied, swam in lakes, dove off 50 foot high diving boards, had potato sack races, climbed up cliffs, played dodge ball, played cowboys and Indians with our cap guns, built snow men and snow forts, sledded down hills through the snow, mowed lawns, joined Scouts, went camping, rode our own zip line, built rafts and walked to school. One time I put wings on my bicycle and got it airborne.
Playing video games, texting friends and watching TV deprive children of a healthy life.
Have you ever wondered where the enshrinement of personal choice, i.e. licentiousness comes from? Especially as a substitute for political liberty and constitutional government.
As for personal choice I would then have to assume you support unfettered abortion. Divorce by mere affirmation. The right to create an auto salvage yard in the middle of a clearly single family home residential neighborhood.
As a constitutional conservative I cannot allow myself to “read” into the constitution “ personal choice” when it clearly doesn't exist there.
A tax on sugar is constitutional. A ban on high level sugar products would be constitutional.
The real question is why do you not support constitutional government and appropriate and legal ways to seek amendments and changes rather than fabricating a fictitious personal choice canard.
And it is absolutely moronic to compare sugar to rat poison. Diabetes is genetic as well as environmental.
There are lots of sodas without sugar.
Admit it. You have no idea what our Constitutional Government is all about, do you?
Only in your own mind. You really have no concept what personal liberty really means. You and your ideas belong at DU.
Bull. Vegans will beg to differ. Vegans, who have zero problem eating sugar because it’s plant based, show zero problems with diabetes or other so-called sugar related problems. Watch “What the Health” and educate yourself on how misinformed you are about sugar. You’ve been lied to.
Apparently now it is the role of Government to regulate behavior.
How quaint
It was my choice as it should be for everyone.
But there is something going on about High Fructose Corn Syrup and folks need to be finding out what the deal is.
Ban Badboo!
Of course, one can also drive to Southcenter...or Shoreline...or Kirkland...for the same product. It doesn’t have to be South Seattle.
You reason like a mid-range lawyer - confident in your reasoning despite its fundamental flaws.
I do not support unfettered abortion. Personal choice ends when it produces a dead baby. I do support simple divorce by mutual consent, with legal involvement to settle any property and custody issues in dispute. I support zoning, when the homeowners mutually agree at the time of purchase - but not when a developer (and political donor with leverage) tried to impose an HOA on my home as he built adjacent to my property.
I’ll agree that taxes on and bans on sugar do not violate any clause of the Constitution. However, there are a huge number of things that fail to violate the Constitution but are also shockingly evil governmental overreach.
I support constitutional government, but I do so with an absolute preference for and insistence upon the smallest possible governmental intrusion into our lives. Government is force. The use of force against another requires an exceptionally strong justification, and that justification is lacking in the do-gooder crusades against sugar, tobacco, alcohol, and other personal choices.
Note: I had one bottle of Coke last year, and I survived the rat poison. It was my choice, and both the sugar and the caffeine were positives for my life at that moment. Others make different choices and we have no moral right to use force (government) to choose on their behalf.
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